Kate became CEO of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation in March 2016, having run CIFF’s Climate Change team since 2009.

Current voluntary board and advisory roles include the Observer Research Foundation (India), the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), and the We Protect Global Alliance. Kate is also chair of the European Climate Foundation. Previously she has served on the advisory committees for the presidents ofCOP28, COP26, and the inaugural Africa Climate Summit.

Prior to CIFF, Kate career spanned roles in government, finance, consulting, a think tank and NGOs, including at Climate Change Capital, where she was Head of Policy. She has also advised policy makers in several roles, including as Senior Policy Advisor for the United Kingdom’s G8 and EU presidencies in 2005 and as a sherpa to the EU High Level Group on Competitiveness, Energy and the Environment in 2008.

She has received multiple awards for her work, including a First Order of Zayed (UAE), a Friendship Award (China) in 2024, and an OBE (UK) in 2023. In 2008, Kate was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

She holds a BSc from the London School of Economics and a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School where she was a Fulbright scholar.