Kathleen McNally

Kathleen McNally is the Second Secretary for Development and Trade issues at the UK Mission to the United Nations and World Trade Organisation in Geneva. She studied Law and then International Law & Policy at University in Scotland, before joining the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (then DFID, now FCDO). She worked in the Procurement & Commercial Department, before studying to become a qualified Internal Auditor, spending two years in the Internal Audit Department. During this time she travelled to 16 UK overseas posts, auditing dozens of development programmes to ensure value for money, adequate risk management and optimum results. She took up her post at the UK Mission in Geneva in 2019 and has been working on development and trade issues, namely aid for trade programmes and policy.