Catherine Holbourn

Catherine Holbourn has over a decade of experience in the water production industry, currently serving as Operational Control Senior Manager at Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water since September 2013. Catherine's career began with roles including Production Manager, Operations Supervisor, and Production Performance Manager, focusing on clean water production and overseeing water treatment works serving a customer base of approximately half a million people in South Wales and parts of England. Catherine's educational background includes a BSc in Genetics from Cardiff University, where studies included a year as an undergraduate research student at the MRC Neuropsychiatric Centre for Genetics and Genomics, culminating in the identification of a novel genetic variant related to Parkinson's disease. Additional early experience includes an administrative role at Aon Hewitt.