About Kathleen
Based in Ireland I have worked in the International Non Governmental sector in Asia and Europe over the last 18 years. Here I gained extensive international experience in governance and programme management. During this period of my professional career I developed specialist skills such as strategy, fund sourcing and negotiation along with organisational and leadership skills.
Since returning to Europe in 2016, I now support Irish and UK NGOs on policies and procedures to be put in place in order to nurture and enhance a good governance environment within their structures and comply with relevant regulatory requirements in this sector.
My personal interest is in the Irish agri sector and as my business develops I am building partners with national and international NGOs to enhance and strengthen their governance programmes.
I am a qualified Irish lawyer, hold a diploma in European law and a certificate in Agribusiness and Food Law 2019. I am a fluent french speaker and farm owner and manager.
Current Memberships
Member of Ireland’s international Election Observation Roster (2024 to 2028)
Member of the Law Society of Ireland 2024
Member of the Law Society of Ireland 2024
Former positions
Former Executive Director of CODATA and International NGO Paris
Former Interim Governance Manager and Interim Peoples Operation Manager, VSO Cambodia
Former Member of the Board and Former Chair of Comhlamh
A 23 member country network that exists to promote global collaboration to advance open science and to improve the usability of data for all areas of research. Details of her work is posted on its website at http://www.codata.org/about-codata/secretariat/past-executive-directors
Former Interim Governance Manager and Interim Peoples Operation Manager, VSO Cambodia
A UK based international NGO who fight poverty not by sending aid, but by working through volunteers and partners to create long-lasting change in some of the world’s poorest regions.
Former Member of the Board and Former Chair of Comhlamh
An Irish based NGO who enable people who have rendered services overseas in developing countries upon their return to Ireland to bring to bear their own particular experience in order to further international development cooperation.
