Matt Bishop

Matt Bishop (born 25 December 1962) is an English journalist, author, novelist and public relations executive.

Background Bishop was born in London to novelist Bernardine Bishop and pianist Stephen Kovacevich. He also wrote columns for Autosport.

The Boy Made the Difference is based on Bishop’s experience as a volunteer during the HIV/AIDS crisis. Dropping out after a year, he began his full-time writing career at Car magazine in 1993, becoming features editor, then in September 1995 moved to Focus magazine as deputy editor then acting editor, before joining F1 Racing (now renamed GP Racing) magazine as editor in December 1996, remaining until September 2007. F1 Racing sold 1.25 million copies a month worldwide during Bishop's tenure.

In the wake of the 2007 Formula 1 espionage controversy, which resulted in the McLaren Formula 1 team being fined an unprecedented $100 million, Bishop was recruited by McLaren chairman Ron Dennis to become the company's communications director, starting work at McLaren in January 2008. He left McLaren in July 2017. He wrote his first novel, The Boy Made the Difference (published in 2020), before returning to motorsport public relations work in 2018 as a member of the senior leadership team of W Series, the world’s first single-seater motor racing championship for female drivers only.

On 10 December 2020 it was announced that Bishop had been recruited by the Aston Martin Formula 1 team to be its chief communications officer, starting in 2021.

Bishop now runs his own boutique comms, PR, social media, content creation, and digital marketing agency, Diagonal Communications, writes a weekly online column for Motor Sport and co-hosts the And Colossally That's History podcast.

Works Non-fiction Emmo: a Racer’s Soul (co-written with Emerson Fittipaldi, 2014)

Novels The Boy Made the Difference (2020)