Kate was previously Vice President responsible for global learning and organisation development. She has been directly involved in the change and transformation of BP since 1990. Much of her work over recent years has been the development of Executive and Leadership combining facilitation, coaching, team building and executive education.

She has worked in industry for 34 years in line management, general HR work, specialist management development and training and in organisation effectiveness and transformation. She joined BP in 1981. Her previous experience was in the retail industry and the public sector.

She is a Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust, Chair of the Conference Board, Europe, Organisation and Business Council. She was a member of the Ministry of Defence Armed Forces Training and Education Steering Group and the UK Government Risk Review Steering Group.

She is is a non-Executive director of HM Revenue and Customs.

She is married to a journalist and lives in London. She spends as much time as she can (not much...) messing about in boats in Cornwall or on the River Thames.