Kay Brock

Kay Brock LVO was appointed Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor of London in August 2004. She was born in 1953 and educated at Sherborne School for Girls and Oxford University, where she took a degree in Modern Languages. She joined the Civil Service as a fast stream entrant in 1975 and worked for the (then) Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food until 1985. She worked as Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary and on international food and commodity agreements in the EU and beyond. In 1985, Brock became a management consultant and took an MBA at the London Business School. She advised multinational food companies on trade and regulatory problems and other clients on a wide range of problems focused on market change. In 1990, she helped to found a company delivering culture-change training to multi-nationals. She taught consulting and problem-solving courses in three languages across Europe. Based in Brussels, she worked for the European Commission’s "Phare" programme of aid to central and eastern Europe from 1992-1995. She ran a £30m project portfolio delivering advice, training and help to businesses and business schools in countries from Ukraine to Slovenia. In the late 1990s, she continued to work as an adviser and project manager for the UK’s overseas aid ministry (DfID) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In 1999, Brock was appointed Assistant Private Secretary to The Queen. She advised the Queen on all aspects of the monarch’s public life, including organising royal visits abroad and the planning and execution of the Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002. She was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in 2002. Brock lives in London, is married and has two adult sons. She is President of Somerville College alumni and an executive board member of Women of the Year.

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