Catherine Isaac is managing director of Awaroa Partners, a Wellington-based communications and public relations firm. She was president of ACT New Zealand from 2001 to 2006 and is currently chair of the Karori Sanctuary Trust. Previously she was communications and public affairs manager of the National Provident Fund and has had extensive experience in the superannuation industry.

During the mid-1980s Catherine worked for several years as a communications consultant to the New Zealand Treasury, the GST Launch Team and various ministers of the Crown. Earlier she worked as a current affairs journalist for Television New Zealand.

Catherine was a founding director of public company St Lukes Group (now Westfield), a trustee of the Royal New Zealand Ballet from 1990 to 1994, and served on the board of trustees of Wellington College from 1995 to 2001.

Catherine was a member of the government's Welfare Working Group.

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