Catherine is an enthusiastic researcher in development economics with several years of experience in designing and coordination research activities while participating in diverse stakeholder engagements both in public and private sectors. She is knowledgeable in budgetary processes, trade and regional integration, natural resource management and illicit financial flows in the African context.

As a Research Assistant in Development Initiatives, she worked on several projects including the HIVOS project that involved analysis of Kenya’s National and County budgets, investment opportunities, tax regime, trade returns, legislative and regulatory frameworks that inform revenue generation for Kenya’s economic growth and linked it to Kenya’s budget cycle. She was engaged in extensive national-level data collection, scrapping and analysis for the 47 counties in Kenya and developed sample county resource profiles disaggregated sectoral.

She holds a Master’s in Public Policy and Administration and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics both from Kenyatta University. She is a published author in the American Journal of Public Policy and Administration for her thesis titled; “Governance Practices and Illicit Financial flows (IFFs) in Kenya’s Oil and Mining Sectors; with a concentration on the importance of transparency, stakeholder accountability, and the rule of Law in addressing the challenges of IFFs.

She joins AFRODAD as a Policy Assistant in the organization’s policy team.