Kate Fox is a social anthropologist and Public Relations director. She is the director of the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC), a PR front group. She has written several books.

Katie Fox also cares for and rides horses.

Fox is the daughter of an anthropologist Robin Fox (not to be confused with the famous historian Robin Lane Fox). As a child she lived in the UK, the United States, France and Ireland. She studied for an undergraduate degree in anthropology and philosophy at Cambridge University. After a period in publishing and marketing in 1989 she became a co-director of MCM Research, a PR and marketing firm.

She is now a director of the Social Issues Research Centre, which is a PR front group, that is funded by the marketing company MCM Research based in Oxford, England. She acts as a consultant on violence management and prevention. She has created training programmes on the subject for a variety of clients, including publicans and bookmakers.

She also consults on issues such as customer psychology, complaint handling, team leading and crime prevention. This too has led to her involvement in developing training and information programmes.

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