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Katherine Howbrook is a Partner at MD Communications and PR and Communications professional with 20 years of experience promoting and protecting some of the world’s biggest brands. Katherine spent a decade at PwC leading PR for industries and issues including audit, Brexit, financial services and FinTech, legal, business recovery, third sector, public sector and economics. She also led PwC’s regional PR team for a number of years. Following PwC, Katherine was Head of Media and External Communications at Business in the Community – The Prince’s Responsible Business Network and a charity specialising in responsible business issues such as the impact of business on the environment, diversity and inclusion, wellbeing in the workplace and employment for excluded groups. Katherine works closely with clients across the legal and professional services sectors on PR and communications strategy planning and implementation, message and narrative development, media relations and press office management, raising issue expert profile, thought leadership and research development, ESG communications and messaging and crisis communications.