Kathy Harvey is the Associate Dean of the MBA and Executive Degrees at Saïd Business School, is a Fellow of Keble College at the University of Oxford in the UK., and is a Member of the Oxford Coaching Community. 

In her role at Saïd Business School, she is responsible for the success of the School’s graduate management programmes. As a Fellow of Keble College Fellow, Kathy is also responsible for articulating and developing the School’s international strategy for its graduate programmes, including developing academic partnerships. She takes a lead role in supporting the professional development of women students at Oxford Saïd.  In her teaching role she leads the Entrepreneurship Project for the Executive MBA and teaches crisis and stakeholder management on programmes within the Executive Education portfolio. Through her membership of the Oxford Coaching Community, Kathy works with senior executives to achieve their professional goals. Previously she held the position of Director of Open Programmes. In this role she designed the School’s postgraduate diplomas, developed a number of short finance programmes and launched an innovative, modular, Oxford Transition to Leadership Programme. 

Before joining Saïd Business School she worked as a journalist and consultant, coaching senior executives and leading the strategic development of executive programmes for managers across the private and public sectors. 

She began her career working for the BBC as both a producer and reporter for thirteen years. As a political correspondent, she has interviewed many leading political figures including Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher and Gordon Brown. She has also worked as a freelance producer for Channel 4 TV and has written for the Sunday Times, Financial Times and the Independent.