Kathryn Fagg AC is a Non-Executive Director on the boards of listed companies National Australia Bank, Medibank Private and Djerriwarrh Investments and an Executive Mentor at CMi Merryck. Kathryn was the Chair of CSIRO from October 2021 to February 2025. She was a member of the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 2013 to 2018 and Boral Limited from 2014 to July 2021, holding the position of Chairperson from July 2018.

In the not-for-profit sector, Kathryn is Chairperson of the Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) and the inaugural Chair of Watertrust Australia Ltd, as well as being a board member of the Champions of Change Coalition, Grattan Institute and the Myer Foundation. She is a Past President of Chief Executive Women (CEW) and a former Chairman of Parks Victoria and the Melbourne Recital Centre.

Kathryn holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (Honours) and a Master of Commerce (Honours) in Organisational Behaviour. She has been awarded an honorary doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland and an honorary doctorate in Business from the University of New South Wales. She was a recipient of the University of Queensland’s Inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Alumni Excellence Award in 2013 and of the Ada Lovelace Medal from the University of New South Wales in 2017.

Kathryn was recognised as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2019, and as a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 2025 for her eminent service to business governance, banking, finance and investment, public administration, the not-for-profit sector, and to women.

The Champions of Change Coalition includes CEOs, secretaries of government departments, non-executive directors and community leaders who believe gender equality is a major business, economic, societal and human rights issue. Established in 2010 by Elizabeth Broderick AO, our mission is to achieve inclusive gender equality across our workplaces by 2030 and a significant and sustainable increase in the representation of women in leadership.