Katrina is a London-born and bred, Brussels-based moderator and communications specialist with a degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University. As part of an eclectic career path spanning steel-trading in West Africa to business development in the post-Soviet states, she spent four years as Director of an award-winning broadcast PR company. There she produced news packages for the BBC, Sky News, Channel 4, ITV, AP and Reuters, interviewing well-known figures from the arts, sport, fashion, business and political arenas.
Since 2007, Katrina has been moderating events covering diverse topics and policy areas spanning R&I, digitisation, social affairs and development issues; agriculture, environment, climate change; energy and transport, fisheries and health. Alongside, until 2017, she managed the creation and roll-out across Europe of multimedia, multilingual communications campaigns targeting the public, and EU and national stakeholders from diverse sectors.
Katrina speaks fluent French, rusty Russian and a dash of German alongside her native tongue.