Kathryn Hufschmid

Kathryn Hufschmid Murdoch is an American philanthropist whose donations center on democracy reform and pressing global issues. She is known for her marriage to James Murdoch, the younger son of the media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, with whom she founded and runs the Quadrivium Foundation.

Career Kathryn Hufschmid Murdoch first worked in marketing and public relations, based in New York City and Hong Kong. with Thai American designer Thakoon Panichgul, which she sold in 2015.

She was an executive director for the Clinton Climate Initiative

She embraces "protopia", a word coined by Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly, meaning "a state that is better today than yesterday". which supports "initiatives that address the root causes of problems and where single actions can create multiple positive outcomes". It is focused on five key areas: democracy, technology and society, scientific understanding, climate change, and the health of the world's oceans. It invests in evidence-based solutions to problems. In 2019,after the Murdoch family's sale of the entertainment part of 21st Century Fox to Disney, his job as CEO going with it, James Murdoch left the family business completely. In 2019, under the auspices of Quadrivium, she established a program focused on "finding and achieving solutions to identified problems in our democratic process", including structural changes and voter participation.

Other activities Murdoch has been on the advisory board of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University and the board of trustees at Rockefeller University. She is a founding board member of SciLine, and is on the boards of Unite America, the Climate Leadership Council, and Climate Central. They have three children, Anneka, Walter, and Emerson, and the family live in New York City.