 She attended Wycombe Abbey, a boarding school in the UK.After gaining a first class degree in History & Economics as a senior scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Webb was awarded a Daiwa scholarship and spent a year studying for a masters degree in Japanese language at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.In 1992, she moved to Japan to continue her Japanese studies and to produce business programmes for NHK, Japan's public television station.