Kathryn Bishop

Kathryn Bishop combines teaching at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, with the practical experience of leadership roles in the private, public and voluntary sectors.

She served as the first Chair of the Welsh Revenue Authority, Britain’s newest tax authority, and was awarded a CBE in June 2021 for services to diversity and public administration. She is the Chairman of the Dean Close Foundation and a non-executive on the board of DAC Beachcroft, an international law firm.

She has spent the last decade working to help individuals – both men and women - build successful working lives, and poured everything she learnt into her first book, "Make Your Own Map". The book focuses on women’s working lives, but contains useful insights for everyone, and is on the reading list for a number of courses and programmes at the University of Oxford. Her new book, written in collaboration with Gillian Camm, focuses on the importance of conversations round the boardroom table and is called “Board Talk: 18 crucial conversations that count inside and outside the boardroom.”