Katherine McFate
President and CEO, Center for Effective Government
President and CEO, Center for Effective Government
Katherine McFate was previously the president and CEO of the Center for Effective Government (formerly OMB Watch). Before that, she was a program officer at the Ford Foundation, and earlier, she served as a deputy director of domestic programs at the Rockefeller Foundation.
Prior to her career in philanthropy, Katherine directed social policy programs for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Before coming to Washington, DC, she lectured at Yale University where she took her graduate degrees and was a special advisor to the City of New Haven on their youth employment programs and anti-poverty policies.
Throughout her work, Katherine has been involved in communications initiatives to understand public attitudes toward government and increase public understanding of and support for the public sector. She has extensive experience with survey research and strategic communications.