Eleanor Mills

Mills is chair of the Women in Journalism campaigning group succeeding Jane Martinson in the role at the end of 2013. She is married with two daughters.

Mills joined The Sunday Times in 1998 from The Daily Telegraph where she was their youngest ever features editor at 26. She became editor of the Saturday edition of The Times in August 2008, replacing George Brock, but returned to the Sunday title as associate editor, and a columnist, less than a year later. Editorial director of The Sunday Times since June 2012, she became the editor of The Sunday Times Magazine (in succession to Sarah Baxter) in September 2015.

After graduating from Oxford University in 1992, Mills' first job was on Tank World magazine, a publication which covered the transportation of liquids. She later trained at The Observer, the only female trainee in the newsroom at that time.

Born and raised in Camden, north London, she is the daughter of the corporate solicitor David Mills from his first marriage. She was educated at St Paul's Girls' and Westminster schools. Mills read English at Brasenose College, Oxford from 1989.

Eleanor Mills (born 1970) is a British journalist long associated with The Sunday Times and The Times. She was the editorial director of The Sunday Times and editor of its magazine until March 2020.