Sue James is an award-winning editorial director and business professional. She is a best-selling fashion author, publisher and editor.  Sue has edited some of the UK’s biggest magazine tiles such as Woman&Home, Prima, Best and Woman’s Own to name a few.

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Sue has also worked with, and shot for, some of the UK’s largest fashion, beauty and lifestyle brands. Plus she's interviewed some of the world’s leading personalities including David Cameron, Hilary Clinton, Dame Helen Mirren, Dawn French and many others.

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Sue currently consults for Time Inc UK heading up their new Time Travel department and overseeing their strategies to reach the 40+ market. Sue has worked for the company for the past 20 years working with CEO’s and MD’s on business issues as well as day-to-day magazine editing. Internationally she has worked with Group Marie Claire, Time Inc US and launched the number one women's lifestyle brand, in print and online, Woman&Home South Africa.

 

But it’s not all been about revenue and awards, Sue has a passion to raise money for charity too and during a 10-year partnership, she and her W&H readers raised a whooping £10 million for Breast Cancer Care. Other charities she has successfully worked with include the Alzheimer’s Society and Target Ovarian Cancer, The Eve Appeal, and the Bobby Moore Fund through Cancer Research UK.

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Today Sue also consults with leading brands through her own company Sue James Limited and is a member of the Sport England Workforce Committee and a trustee for the National Centre of Circus Arts.

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Photographs by Trevor Leighton.