Katherine McDonald - Senior Consultant,Strategem NI
Katherine is a Senior Consultant with Stratagem and is a founder member of the firm. She advises some of Stratagem's longest-term clients and has provided project management to a range of organisations working in complex legislative and regulatory environments. She has also led higher-profile campaigns co-coordinating policy development, lobbying and public relations. She has developed and delivered a comprehensive and popular training programme on lobbying, campaigning and understanding government in Northern Ireland.
Katherine worked for the Labour Party based at Westminster for four years. After one year with Tony Blair MP, she worked as research and press assistant to Mo Mowlam MP, then Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. She returned to Northern Ireland in 1997 as press and public relations officer for The Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NIACRO). Katherine studied at St. John’s College, Oxford and then completed a Masters in Journalism studies at the University of Ulster. In 2006, she spent two months at the University of California, Berkeley taking a course in Politics, Ethics and Leadership.
