Katharine is a senior communications and external affairs professional currently working in the government with the energy sector, having previously been a civil servant at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Health and Social Care.

A former journalist, working in both print and television, Katharine specialised in local government in London especially at City Hall with both Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson.

Outside work Katharine is a keen (if slow) runner along the River Thames and an enthusiastic swimmer (very definitely in a pool and not in the Thames).