Lisa Markwell

She then worked at SKY and Elle magazines before joining the launch of The Sunday Correspondent in a team that included Peter Cole,[5] Mick Brown, Ian Katz, Jonathan Freedland and Simon Kelner.

By 2004 she was features editor in charge of the daily "Review" section, but left to launch the Condé Nast magazine, Easy Living.

[6] In April 2013, Markwell replaced John Mullin as editor of The Independent on Sunday when the paper embarked on an integration programme.

[7] During her editorship, Markwell highlighted the awareness of the plight of the Arctic 30 when her close friend Frank Hewetson, a Greenpeace activist, was imprisoned in Russia for attempting to occupy a drilling platform.

[14] After the closure of The Independent on Sunday, Markwell took a year out to train as a chef at Leiths School of Food and Wine 2017-2018, gaining a distinction level diploma.