Catherine Graham-Harrison (Member of the Committee for London)
Catherine Graham-Harrison is a strategic adviser working with a wide range of organisations in the private and not-for-profit sectors. Since establishing her consultancy in March 1994, she has been Project Director and latterly Adviser for Tate Modern; Acting Chief Executive of the Community Fund (previously the National Lottery Charities Board) and a Board member of the Stonebridge Housing Action Trust.
Other clients have included IBM; SmithKline Beecham; the Victoria and Albert Museum; the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation; the London Borough of Camden; the Camelot Foundation; Arts Council England; WWF-UK and Amnesty International. Her work has covered strategic reviews of existing organisations and projects; development plans for new organisations and projects; funding strategies; and advice on and management of, organisational change and development.
Before becoming a consultant, she was Director of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and before that Community Affairs Director and a senior client manager at Citibank. She started her career with a number of roles in the voluntary housing sector, the last being Deputy Director of a major London Housing Association. She is a Governor and Trustee of Coram Family and was, previously, Chair of WOMANKIND Worldwide, a Trustee of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Vice Chair of Art Council, London (previously London Arts).