Katherine Lyons

Katherine joined the former asra Board in 2016 and is a Board Member and Chair of the People Committee at PA Housing. She also currently serves on the Audit and Risk Committee at PA Housing.

Katherine is a solicitor and notary public. She recently also became a company secretary (holding the highest Chartered Governance Institute/ICSA postgraduate qualification in governance).

Katherine is currently in-house legal counsel and company secretary for a local authority and a number of public-sector clients, having previously spent over a decade in the City of London, predominantly as a solicitor and notary public at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.

She is a fluent French and Spanish speaker and has undertaken secondments at Canary Wharf Group, Airbus in Toulouse, Freshfields' Madrid office, at a law firm in Chile and at Eurocontrol in Brussels.

Her other non-executive appointments include two previous board roles with the Southern Housing Group and a current board role for a waste-management and environmental-services company, where she chairs the Risk and Audit Committee.