Katherine Ann Hagen is the Chief Executive Officer and Principal Consultant for Hagen Resources International, an international government relations firm based in Geneva, Switzerland. She and her HRI team organize multi-stakeholder meetings on a wide range of issues, facilitate networking with international organizations and produce reports for individual clients.  Clients include large multinational companies such as Suez, Unilever, Medtronic and Pfizer; professional associations such as the Geneva Women in International Trade and the Global Health Council; government agencies such as the US Department of Labor; and international organizations such as ILO/AIDS and the Sectoral Activities Department of the ILO. Katherine is also the Executive Director of the Council for Multilateral Business Diplomacy, where she is responsible for running the members’ programmes (multi-stakeholder dialogues and in-depth analysis of global socio-economic issues), and writing the commentary for the Council’s weekly newsletter. She is also the Executive Director of the Geneva Social Observatory where she serves as the project leader for various GSO studies and conferences.

Katherine provides clients with analysis of socio-economic policy issues and decision-making processes and helps them with both one-on-one networking and facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogue.  She specializes in knowing how intergovernmental  organizations and NGOs operate across the Geneva international scene (and elsewhere) on the cross-cutting issues of climate change, food security, health and nutrition, labour relations, intellectual property, trade and sustainable development. She also manages projects, including the development and implementation of strategic action plans on targeted issues, such as the multi-year project on the GSO Workplace Strategy on Diabetes and Wellness.  

With doctorates in both law and international relations, Katherine brings a cross-cutting perspective on policy deliberations at the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, World Health Organization, UN Conference on Trade and Development, International Labour Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization, and many others. She also draws on her experience as the former Deputy Director-General at the ILO where she managed the policy dialogue with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and implemented a strategic focus on promoting social dialogue with workers and employers’ organizations and governments; and as Vice President of Government Relations at AT&T, White House Fellow at the US Office of Personnel Management, North Carolina state senator, civic leader and professor of international and Asian politics. 

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