My friend Kate Wilson, who has died aged 73, was one of Channel 4’s first business affairs executives. She spent 40 years in the industry, eventually setting up her own successful consultancy.
Kate was born in London, to Judy (nee Trowbridge), a teacher, and Geoffrey Wilson, the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Overseas Development and chairman of Oxfam. The family moved to the US in 1958, where Kate attended the National Cathedral school in Washington DC. On return to the UK in 1966 she went to St Paul’s girls school in London, going on to read politics and economics at York University.
