Kate Fox is a social anthropologist and Public Relations director. She is the director of the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC).
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.