Monday 28 September 2026
12:30
Camilla Cavendish
Generation Maybe: Why We're Having Fewer Children, and What It Means for Us All
Camilla will discuss why we’re having fewer children, how it’s changing the world and what we should do about it. In her forthcoming book, which will be published in October, she explores how a multitude of individual decisions have led to one of the biggest global challenges we’re facing today: the baby gap.
Camilla is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and policy expert who writes a weekly OpEd column for the Financial Times where she is a Contributing Editor. She is also a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School researching the impacts of demographic change, and the author of Generation Maybe: Why We’re Having Fewer Children and What It Means For Us All, due to be published by Penguin on October 1. Formerly Head of the UK Prime Minister’s Policy Unit under David Cameron, she is a board member of the UK Department of Health and Social Care, and a crossbench peer. Her previous book, Extra Time: 10 Lessons for an Ageing World, charted the global challenges of longevity, after she started her career at McKinsey & Co and obtained degrees from Oxford and Harvard.
Award winning journalist, broadcaster and commentator
Camilla is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and policy expert who writes a weekly OpEd column for the Financial Times where she is a Contributing Editor. She is also a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School researching the impacts of demographic change, and the author of Generation Maybe: Why We’re Having Fewer Children and What It Means For Us All, due to be published by Penguin on October 1. Formerly Head of the UK Prime Minister’s Policy Unit under David Cameron, she is a board member of the UK Department of Health and Social Care, and a crossbench peer. Her previous book, Extra Time: 10 Lessons for an Ageing World, charted the global challenges of longevity, after she started her career at McKinsey & Co and obtained degrees from Oxford and Harvard.