Catherine Horton
Corporate Governance Policy Advisor, Financial Reporting Council
Catherine joined the FRC in July 2013 as a Corporate Governance Policy Advisor with specific responsibility for the UK Corporate Governance Code. She has worked on a number of public consultations on the Code – on remuneration and then risk management ahead of the 2014 revision and more recently on audit related changes for the 2016 update. Currently, Catherine is a key member of the team undertaking the comprehensive review of the Code. This work has built upon the FRC’s culture project and succession planning research as well as incorporating the findings from the BIES Green Paper and Select Committee. Other areas of focus include overseeing the publication and writing the Corporate Governance section of the annual Developments in Corporate Governance and Stewardship report.
Catherine began her career at Bank of Scotland (later HBOS) as a graduate trainee and over the 13 years there worked in various departments, including Group Risk and Group Company Secretariat.
In 2009 she studied for an MA in Corporate Governance at Kingston University, where her dissertation was on the 2010 UK Corporate Governance Code changes. The MA also qualified Catherine as a Chartered Company Secretary. Prior to the FRC, she was Assistant Company Secretary at Aon.