Kathryn Fagg

Kathryn Joy Fagg (born July 1961) is an Australian chemical engineer and board director. In October 2021, she was appointed to a five-year term as chair of the CSIRO which she concluded in March of 2025.

Early life and education Kathryn Joy Fagg was born in July 1961 in regional Queensland.

She graduated from the University of Queensland (UQ) in 1982 with a chemical engineering degree, one of six women in a class of 200.

After her postgraduate business studies, she moved into management consultancy. banking with the ANZ Bank, where she was for some time general manager of retail banking in New Zealand, and managing director, banking products for the whole group. where she was president and non-executive director of fast moving consumer goods.

After this, Fagg concentrated on non-executive director roles. until May 2018, when she was chair of the Audit Committee. She served on the board of Boral from August 2014 to 2016. She has also been a director of Incitec Pivot and Djerriwarrh Investments. This term was completed in March 2025, being succeeded by Ming Long.

Non-corporate activities , Fagg was actively involved with Chief Executive Women (CEW), at that time chairing the Thought Leadership Committee and a member of the Scholarship Committee. She was elected president of CEW, to serve a two-year term from November 2016, succeeding Diane Smith-Gander.

She was chair of the Melbourne Recital Centre as of 2014 until at least 2016, and chair of Breast Cancer Network Australia in 2016. 2019: Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to business and finance, to the central banking, logistics and manufacturing sectors, and to women" 2025: Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the 2025 King's Birthday Honours for "eminent service to business governance, to the banking, finance and investment industry, to public administration, to the not-for-profit sector, and to women."

Personal Fagg is married to Kevin Altermatt, a strategy management consultant, and has at least one son, Jack. they were living in the Domain precinct of South Yarra, Melbourne.