Katrina Williams

Katrina Williams provides counsel on a range of issues - especially food, agriculture, environment, climate and energy - in the Rud Pedersen Public Affairs Brussels Office

Katrina has worked for over 30 years in public policy including at senior levels on agricultural, food, environmental climate and energy policy. She combines policy expertise with extensive experience in influencing internationally and in the EU: from 2017-2020 she was the UK’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU and Ambassador in COREPER and has provided senior leadership to UK teams in trade negotiations and in UN climate and environment negotiations (including at the Paris Climate Change Conference in 2015, and at the Glasgow Climate Change Conference in 2021). She played a senior role, in the UK’s Cabinet Office, in shaping the UK’s 2005 Presidency of the EU, and she has acted as the UK Spokesman in the EU’s Special Committee on Agriculture.