Joyce Waley Cohen

Joyce Constance Ina Waley-Cohen, Lady Waley-Cohen (; 20 January 1920 – 30 June 2013) was an English educationist and public servant. She was chair of the Saint Felix School's governing body, the Governing Bodies of Girls' Schools Association, the Independent Schools Joint Council, Taunton School and Wellington College, chair of the board of both the Westminster Children's Hospital and the Gordon Hospital. Waley-Cohen was married to Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen, 1st Baronet, the Lord Mayor of London, and they had four children.

Background Waley-Cohen was born on 20 January 1920 at 15 Lansdowne Road, Kensington, London. She was the daughter of the politician and lawyer Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan, who served in the British Army, and his wife Eleanor Joan Clara (Nellie), , a future late 1940s London County Council chairperson, and graduated from Girton College, Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1941. She began her working career as an administrator in the Ministry of Fuel and Power in London. There, Waley-Cohen was led by the principal Bernard Waley-Cohen alongside Harold Wilson. The two were married on 21 December 1943 and they had four children: Rosalind, Stephen, Joanna and Robert.

The National Portrait Gallery, London holds a series of four quarter-plate glass negative photographic portraits of Waley-Cohen and her children in its collection.