Matt Bishop

Matt Bishop, who was born in London in 1962, is Group Head of Communications and Public Relations for McLaren, which position he took up in January 2008.

He works closely with the 2009 Formula One World Champion Jenson Button, Button's team-mate at McLaren the 2005 and 2006 Formula One World Champion Fernando Alonso, the McLaren team's test and reserve driver Kevin Magnussen, McLaren Technology Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ron Dennis and the McLaren Formula One team's Racing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Eric Boullier and Jonathan Neale. Bishop used to work closely with the 2008 Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton, before Hamilton left McLaren to join Mercedes-Benz at the end of the 2012 Formula One season.

Previously, Bishop had been Editor in Chief of the Formula One magazine F1 Racing.

He took on the editorship of F1 Racing in December 1996 and left it in December 2007, by which time F1 Racing had become the world's best-selling grand prix magazine, according to its own strap-line which appears on its front cover every month.