2018-2023 Kathleen was a Board member when Dublin South Citizens Information Service was established in 2018. As a new organisation, there was a significant amount of work required over a number of years to ensure that the organisation could declare full compliance with the Charity Regulatory Authority. Kathleen chaired the Governance and Compliance committee of the Board and was the key driver to the organisation declaring full compliance in 2021. Kathleen has an excellent understanding of compliance and good governance, she drafted and edited numerous documents and policies, and her enthusiasm in leading the sub-committee is sorely missed. Simon Monds | Regional Manager |Dublin South Citizens Information Service

    2021/2022 Kathleen worked as part-time consultant with the Compliance team in GOAL Global, Dublin. In particular, in collaboration with the Head of Compliance, she contributed to the development of a suite of complex donor funding template Agreements for GOAL Projects world-wide. Although the consultancy project extended longer than initially anticipated, Kathleen's commitment to the completion of the project together with her understanding of the challenges, greatly supported the work of the Team. I highly recommend Kathleen for her astute judgement on organisational risk, her eye for detail in lengthy complex binding agreements and her results orientation. Mary Van Lieshout, Deputy CEO GOAL and Director of External Affairs

    Since January 2020 Kathleen has been supporting our UK charity, Makan, in developing a suite of governance policies for our organization. This has been crucial for our organisation at a time when we are growing as an institution and need to build a good governance environment that supports our team. Kathleen is a pleasure to work with, and her work process is straightforward - she brainstorms with management on each policy, she questions what we want reflected in the policy, its impact on Makan, its compliance with the charity regulator, then she drafts the policy for consideration by the organisation's leadership. This methodology is the success factor in building policies that support and nurture a good governance environment within our organization. Tamara Ben-Halim, Director Makan

    Kathleen worked as Interim Governance Manager with VSO Cambodia. In her short term in this position the VSO Cambodian Governance Programme won a successful bid of circa 1 million euros from the European Union in support of good governance within national NGOs. Her contributions to the project design and development were very appreciated. She can quickly analyse situations, facilitate teams and collaborate with networks to make projects happen. Her understanding of the importance of good governance in an NGO context and the supports and skills necessary to promote this were some of her key attributes in the success of the programme. Vantha Chea, Former Country Director VSO, Cambodia

    I appointed Kathleen as Executive Director of CODATA. choosing her from among many outstanding candidates. During her 13 year tenure as head of this Paris based NGO, CODATA grew into a 23-country network at the forefront in the emerging field of data science. Ms Cass initiated and built successful collaborative projects with global scientific groups and most importantly, established a sound financial structure that enabled the organization to thrive and expand. Her ability to identify, assess, and propose solutions to critical issues faced by CODATA’s International Board was a key factor to the effective development of the organization during this period. Dr. John Rumble, President of R&R Data Services, Gaithersburg, MD; CODATA President 1998 – 2002

    During my term as President of the organization, CODATA positioned itself as a voice for scientific civil societies in raising the importance of access to scientific data for research in documentation coming from the United Nations World Summit of the Information Society WSIS, WSIS 2003(Geneva), WSIS 2005(Tunis). This success reflected Kathleen's strategic negotiating skills at international level and her ease at promoting positive collaboration with people and networks from different countries and cultures in order to share common objectives overcoming small conflicts of interests. Shuichi Iwata, Former President of CODATA (2002-2006) Emeritus Professor, the University of Tokyo