Kath Ford

Kath joined Young Lives in May 2018 and leads our policy work on adolescence, gender and youth. Before joining Young Lives, Kath worked for 14 years as a governance advisor at the UK’s Department for International Development, working on a broad range of policy areas across Africa and Asia including on violence against women and girls, democracy and local accountability, security and access to justice, and public finance and taxation.

Kath has a BA in Human Sciences from Oxford University, and began her career as a Chartered Accountant before working as public finance advisor to the Government of Namibia through VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas). Kath has also lived and worked in New Zealand, Australia, Holland and Malawi.