With more than 15 year's experience working on climate change and environment at headquarters and in-the-field, Catherine is a policy specialist in climate and security risk and the technical lead on climate and security under UNDP’s Global Policy Network. She is UNDP’s focal point on the DPPA-UNDP-UN Environment Climate Security Mechanism and UN Water-led core group on Leveraging Water for Peace. Catherine was recognized as one of 25 Young Security Leaders by the Körber-Stiftung and the Munich Security Conference (2020) and is an observer of the International Military Council for Climate Security.