Vivienne Cox

{{Short description|British businesswoman}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Vivienne Cox

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|commas=on|DBE}}

| birth_name = Dame Vivienne Cox

| birth_date = May 1959

| occupation = Businesswoman, chairman of the supervisory board of Vallourec

}}

Dame Vivienne Cox, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|commas=on|DBE}} (born May 1959) is a British businesswoman, chairman of the supervisory board of Vallourec, the French multinational steel components company.

Cox was born in 1959{{cite web|title=Pearson PLC|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00053723/officers|website=Companies House|access-date=11 August 2015}} and worked for BP for almost three decades{{cite web|title=Vivienne Cox Non-executive director|url=https://www.pearson.com/about-us/board-of-directors/vivienne-cox.html|website=Pearson|access-date=11 August 2015}} before being named as chairperson of the supervisory board of Vallourec, a French multinational steel components company. She is also a non-executive director of Pearson PLC and a commissioner at the UK's Airports Commission.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/vivienne-cox|title=Vivienne Cox CBE - GOV.UK|website=www.gov.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-08-27}}

Since July 2016, Cox has been a non-executive director of GlaxoSmithKline.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/about-us/board-of-directors/dr-vivienne-cox/|title=Dr Vivienne Cox {{!}} GSK|website=www.gsk.com|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-08-27}} In July 2018, she became the first Chair of the Rosalind Franklin Institute.{{cite news |title=Business Secretary Greg Clark announces £100 million investment for new research institute |url=https://epsrc.ukri.org/newsevents/news/rosalindrranklininstitute/ |access-date=8 October 2019 |work=epsrc.ukri.org |date=23 February 2017}}