Katherine Gilmour
Senior Regional Co-Director, Europe and Eurasia
Katherine serves as Senior Regional Co-Director of the Europe and Eurasia team and leads Global Fund for Children’s Spark Fund, an innovative, participatory fund that provides youth-led and youth-focused groups with financial support and capacity development. Prior to joining GFC, Katherine was the Gender Justice Officer at the Church of Scotland, where she led the organization’s national gender mainstreaming work, set up and funded transformational gender justice projects, trained faith and community leaders, and worked with local communities to develop responses to gender injustice in their own settings. Katherine has a background in policy, organizational development, and training work in violence against women, homelessness, and children’s organizations. She has a master’s degree in international human rights law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway, with a particular focus on legal theory and women’s and children’s rights, and a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Glasgow.