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Catherine Mayer

Catherine Mayer, writer, activist, and Women’s Equality Party co-founder, is a best-selling author and former TIME editor. Known for Charles: The Heart of a King and Good Grief, she co-founded the Primadonna Festival, stages impactful shows, and champions gender equality through media, literature, and advocacy.

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Catherine Mayer

Price Band D: £3K - £5K

About Catherine Mayer

Catherine Mayer is a writer, activist, speaker, and co-founder and President of the Women’s Equality Party. An advocate for gender equality and social change, she also co-founded the Primadonna Festival in 2019, celebrating diverse voices in literature and the arts. A prolific author, her works include the best-selling biography Charles: The Heart of a King (2015, updated 2022), Amortality: The Pleasures and Perils of Living Agelessly (2011), and Attack of the Fifty Foot Women: How Gender Equality Can Save the World! (2017). With her mother Anne Mayer Bird, she co-wrote Good Grief: Embracing Life at a Time of Death (2020).

Catherine’s career began in journalism at The Economist, with subsequent roles at Business Traveller, FOCUS, and TIME, where she rose to London Bureau Chief, Europe Editor, and Editor at Large. Her political biography of King Charles III made global headlines upon its release in 2015, the same year she co-founded the Women’s Equality Party with Sandi Toksvig.

Catherine frequently appears on broadcast media and stages one-woman shows, including Catherine Mayer: FFS, and collaborated with Grayson Perry on Hello Boys (2018). She served as President of the Foreign Press Association (2003-2005) and trustee of the National Migraine Centre, and was a judge for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

After the death of her husband, musician Andy Gill, she executive produced the tribute album The Problem of Leisure: A Celebration of Andy Gill and Gang of Four (2021), honoring his legacy.

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