Catherine Friday

Catherine is responsible for developing and executing our strategy for advising governments around the world. Working closely with clients and EY teams, she identifies key public sector issues and leads the development of new client services and offerings.

Catherine has spent much of her career providing services to state and federal departments and regulators, ministerial councils, not-for-profits and NGOs in every state and territory in Australia, and in New Zealand. The implications of this work are far-reaching, improving outcomes for citizens across education, health, human services, defense, transport and infrastructure, and central agencies.

Catherine has post-graduate qualifications from Monash University, Harvard University, Stanford University and the Cranlana Programme. She is a Trustee and Audit Committee Chair of the Melbourne Olympic Parks Trust, which governs the largest sports and entertainment precinct in the Oceania region.

How Catherine is building a better working world

“Government is crucial to the lives of us all. From keeping people and communities safe to creating the conditions for economies to grow sustainably, we all have a stake in the effective running of government programs and services.

By working with public sector organizations to help make these programs and services the best they can be, the EY teams that I lead improve lives and communities around the world.”