Catherine is the Tasmanian Disability Commissioner and an experienced senior executive across Government and Non-Government sectors and was most recently the South Australian Deputy Health and Community Services Complaints Commissioner. Catherine is a fellow of the South Australian Governor’s Leadership Foundation and a graduate of both Oxford University’s Women’s Executive Leadership Program and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Catherine has tertiary qualifications (both undergraduate and postgraduate) in Psychology, Human Rights, Public Health, and Law which she has utilised across the health, human services, and child protection sectors.Catherine’s early career was spent as a trauma therapist for children and young people who had experienced sexual violence, whether as a perpetrator or victim-survivor. She is currently conducting research broadly aligned in the areas of administrative law and regulation, including the regulation of unregistered health care workers across Australia.