Board and governance
Oversight is a practice, not a seat.
Current board and committee responsibilities, and the standard Kate applies to the questions a board is responsible for asking.
Current appointments
Fleet Science Center
Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee
Board seatCommittees: Compensation Committee (ongoing ad hoc committee)
PLOS GmbH
Managing Director (Board)
Board seatPLOS Pte (Singapore)
Managing Director (Board)
Board seatORCID
Finance Committee Member
Committee appointmentA committee appointment, not a seat on ORCID's Board of Directors.
Previous committee leadership
Fleet Science Center
Former Chair of the Audit Committee and former member of the Nominating Committee
Committee appointment
On fiduciary oversight
The board is responsible for the integrity of what it is told.
Fiduciary oversight is a discipline of asking the question that has not been asked yet. Boards are responsible for the integrity of what they are told, for the capital they allocate, and for the risk appetite the organization actually operates within rather than the one written down.
In practice that means audit committees that read the control environment critically, compensation and risk conversations that account for behavior and not only outcomes, and a standing question about which assumptions the strategy depends on. Where AI enters the operating model, the same standard applies: the board needs to understand what the system decides, who is accountable for it, and how the organization would know if it went wrong.