Eleanor Mills is an award-winning editor, journalist and writer, a diversity campaigner and entrepreneur. She is the Founder and Editor in Chief of noon.org.uk a platform for women in midlife - she calls them Queenagers – which is dedicated to challenging gendered ageism and changing the cultural narrative about the later stages of women’s lives to something more positive and fit for purpose. Her book Much More to Come – Lessons on the Magnificence and Mayhem of Midlife, is published by HarperCollins on August 1st 2024.
Eleanor was Chair of Women in Journalism UK from 2014-2021 and worked as a senior executive for 23 years at The Sunday Times, as the paper’s Editorial Director, the award-winning Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine, the paper’s main interviewer (interrogating everyone from Sheryl Sandberg to Mikhail Gorbachev, David Cameron to Theresa May) and a major columnist and a prize-winning Feature Writer. She appears regularly on TV and radio, writes broadly across UK newspaper titles and magazines and advises global corporations and gives keynotes on diversity, particularly on retaining senior women. Former publications include Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 Years of the Best Journalism by women published by Hachette. NOON Consulting runs corporate Queenager programmes to help companies retain women in midlife.
Eleanor lives in London with her husband and two children.
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