CATHERINE McBRIDE OBE

THE UK AND AUSTRALIA – REBOOTING THE RELATIONSHIP

GLOBAL DISCUSSION FORUM EPISODE 1

Catherine McBride OBE is an economist, born in Australia but now a member of the UK’s Trade and Agriculture Commission, a body tasked with scrutinising the UK’s new post-Brexit trade agreements.

She is expertly placed to give us a presentation on all aspects of the new economic relationship between the UK and Australia.

About Catherine McBride

Catherine was awarded an OBE for services to Economic Commentary and Trade Policy and is recognised as an expert in her field, specialising in economic and regulatory topics, global trade, farming standards, the environment, banking and macroeconomics. She is a fellow of the Centre for Brexit Policy, a researcher for the Growth Commission and has written papers on UK post-Brexit trade for Global Britain and for the IEA. She writes regularly for the website Briefings for Britain and for The Telegraph.

Catherine moved to the UK to work for an Australian Stockbroker in 1987, she still lives in London, and has worked for UK and American multinational banks trading the European and US derivative markets, including the agricultural commodities markets. She campaigned for Brexit in 2016 as she believed that the EU’s one-size-fits-all policies fitted no country in the EU very well but they really didn’t fit the UK which was always an outlier in the EU.

After the UK-EU referendum, Catherine joined a City think tank reviewing EU financial regulations that could be changed now the UK had left the EU’s control. She later joined the Legatum Institute and then the Institute of Economic Affairs, also writing about financial regulation. But as the debate about new free trade agreements heated up in the UK, she found herself as a lone voice rebutting the misinformation being pushed out by the UK’s National Farmers Union about Australian farms, food and farming standards. This brought her to the attention of the Department for International Trade, which appointed her to the Trade and Agriculture Commission in 2021.

To follow or contact Catherine McBride, visit:

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk

https://x.com/CeeMacBee

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