Kate is an Assistant Professor at Maynooth University. A BComm (Banking and Finance), MBS (Financial Services), and PhD graduate (KPMG Doctoral Scholar in Accounting) from University College Dublin (UCD).

Kate worked for over a decade in wealth management and management consulting, where she held a variety of financial services advisory roles, prior to joining UCD in 2010 as an academic and then the IoB in 2016, where she led the executive education offering to the financial services sector.

Kate specialises in management accounting and control, ethics, culture and decisionmaking biases, with a particular focus on team behavioural dynamics both in her academic role within Maynooth University and her work with the financial services sector and the Institute of Banking.