Catherine is a dual licensed UK and US architect who has practiced in both London and New York City in educational to high-end residential sectors. She is the Past President of the RIBA-USA and was the RIBA's Director of Strategic Development in North America. She is currently the Chair of the New York Chapter of the RIBA-USA. Catherine has a broad experience of designing and delivering built projects and also of architectural advocacy. As President of the RIBA-USA she led the negotiations with the British Government in the US regarding reinstating a reciprocal agreement between the UK and US architectural regulatory bodies. The Mutual Recognition Agreement between NCARB and ARB was ratified in 2023 allowing architects professional mobility between the two countries. This was followed in 2025 by an MRA between the UK and Canada and other professions are following suit including engineers. As an architect Catherine delivered schools and social housing to the highest sustainable benchmarks in London and used those experiences to help lead the design on NYC's first, 'Green School' in Battery Park City. In her own practice she has worked on high-end residential projects 'in white-glove' 5th Avenue apartment buildings in Manhattan for an Italian fashion family to gut renovations of brownstones in Brooklyn. Her studio also designed and built the first outpost of a famous Roman restaurant in Williamsburg, which the New Yorker reviewed, highlighted the interior design and distilled the design into an icon for the, 'Table for Two' segment.