Miranda Markham

Miranda Markham DL has been a Deputy Lieutenant for Oxfordshire since 2008. She is part of the Lieutenancy team focused on Cherwell and is the Lieutenancy’s link to Bicester. She holds the Lieutenancy’s placemaking and tourism brief for the County.

Miranda’s background is in business. She joined the Operations team at SBM, an oil company in Monaco, in 1980 and took up the role of Operations Manager at Ingram Tampimex Oil brokers in Monaco in 1983. On her return to the UK, she ran the French property desk for Prudential International in London from 1986 to 1989, before setting up her own business selling property in France to UK residents. She joined French retail company Everstyl in 1992 as their UK Manager and established their operations in the UK.  She is fluent in French and Italian.

Miranda joined Value Retail in 1995 as Deputy Centre Director at the inception of Bicester Village. She has also participated in the opening and community integration of other villages created and operated by Value Retail, which now total nine in Europe and two in China, in 2014 and 2016, respectively. For the last decade, Miranda’s primary focus has been as Community Relations Director for Bicester Village, developing a corporate social responsibility programme, handling regional PR, and assisting with planning and development projects.

Alongside her work, Miranda has served as a Sponsor and Governor of Bicester Community College and as a Trustee of Oxford Brookes Students’ Union.  She represents Bicester Village on committees and non-executive boards and is currently a Director of Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OXLEP), Experience Oxfordshire, and Bicester Vision.

Miranda is married to Michael, who farms in North Oxfordshire, and they have two children.