Catherine Judd is director of JM Communications, a Wellington communications and public relations consultancy within financial services company Jacques Martin New Zealand.  She has extensive experience in all aspects of communications and public relations, including the provision of media and presentation training and specialises in strategic communications planning for a wide range of government and private sector clients.

Prior to joining Jacques Martin New Zealand, Catherine was Communications and Public Affairs Manager for the National Provident Fund and worked for four years as a communications consultant to The Treasury, the GST Launch Team and various Ministers of the then Labour Government.  Prior to that, she worked as a public relations and communications consultant in the United States, was a current affairs journalist for Television New Zealand for three years and trained as a documentary film editor and director with the New Zealand National Film Unit.

Catherine is deputy chair of the Board of Trustees of Wellington College where she has served for five years and is a member of the Board of the Wellington Community Trust.  She was a director of public company St Lukes' Group Limited from 1993 to 1996 and a Trustee of the Royal New Zealand Ballet from 1990 to 1994.  She has won numerous international communications awards and has been a judge of the annual AXA Trustee of the Year Award for the past two years.  Catherine has a BA in English and Languages from Canterbury University.