Katy Lindsay
Katy Lindsay is founder and managing director of a consulting business that combines strategy,
finance and psychology to advise organisations on how to become more effective.
Katy was born in Nigeria, the daughter of a petroleum engineer, and grew up in Surrey
and on various oilfields in Asia and Europe. Having left Oxford University in 1988 with
a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Katy joined leading international strategy
firm Bain & Company, with whom she worked in both the UK and North America.
She spent four years as a financial analyst with J Sainsbury plc before her husband's job took
them to South America. There, Katy joined NM Rothschild & Sons and worked with them in
Chile and, subsequently, Australia, returning to the UK in 1999.
Katy stood in the 2005 General Election against John Prescott in Hull and has been a Councillor
in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
She was a member of the James Commission which assessed ways
of improving effectiveness of public sector spending, and also worked with Peter Lilley
and Bob Geldof on the Conservative Party's Globalisation and Global Poverty Group.
Katy is married to Andrew and they have three children.
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