Practices & Specialities
Energy, Environment & Climate Change
Global warming is the biggest challenge facing mankind. Just as all human activity has an impact on the environment; all human activity will be impacted by the response to climate change and other environmental stresses.
During this century, we need a fundamental change in the relationship between resource use, economic activity and society. Sustainable development is no longer an option – it is a necessity.
Effective communication to stakeholders and especially governments is critical to ensure a policy environment that continues to encourage innovation and profitable commercial growth, and to satisfy higher expectations from consumers and communities.
Burson-Marsteller’s European Energy, Environment & Climate Change Practice works across Europe and the Middle East with clients large and small who are navigating difficult issues, bringing new technologies to market, or seeking powerful ways to tell their story.
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Katherine Dooley
Director in the Corporate and Crisis practice
Office: London, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7300 6151
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Katherine Dooley is a director in the Corporate and Crisis practice Read extended profile
Katherine is a director in the Corporate and Crisis practice, a member of the B-M global energy practice and a member of the B-M EMEA corporate social responsibility practice.
Currently, Katherine works across strategic media relations, reputation management, corporate citizenship, issues preparedness and crisis counsel programmes. She provides both strategic and tactical support on issues ranging from environmental pollution incidents, fraud, fatal accidents, supply chain failure and corporate change and restructuring. In addition, she delivers crisis communication training (including media training) and designs and facilitates crisis simulation exercises.
Prior to joining Burson Marsteller, Katherine was a senior consultant with reputation management specialists, Regester Larkin. There she developed an extensive crisis and issues management repertoire working with clients including British Telecom, Exxon, Xstrata, Roche and the European Central Bank.
Katherine also spent seven years in-house with Shell UK where she was UK external communications advisor. There she was tasked with improving communications to UK special publics/key stakeholders, raising the country-level of crisis preparedness and accountable for the management of Downstream business risk issues.
Katherine’s current clients include Element Six, Moet Hennessy, Kimberly Clark and Johnson Controls.
