Decca Aitkenhead

Decca Aitkenhead is the Chief Interviewer of the Sunday Times, where she interviews leading names in global public life. Her journalism has won multiple awards; five British Press Awards for Broadsheet Interviewer of the Year, the British Journalism Award for Interviewer of the Year  2019, and the Catherine Pakenham Award 1996. She has been a columnist and features writer for most national newspapers and magazines, before joining the Sunday Times in 2018, and is a regular contributor to BBC radio and television.  In 2000 she wrote a travel book, The Promised Land, about going around the world in search of perfect Ecstasy. Her 2016 memoir, All At Sea (Fourth Estate), was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize.

She recently worked with Rio Ferdinand on his memoir Thinking Out Loud: Love, Grief, and Being Mum and Dad, leading on from the immensely popular BBC documentary.

She was born in Wiltshire in 1971, studied Politics and Modern History at the University of Manchester, and lives in London with her sons. 

Books in order of publication:

The Promised Land: Travels in Search of the Perfect E (2002).

All at Sea (2016).