Catherine Clark is a British-trained and licensed architect who has lived and worked in NYC for over 20 years. She is the President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, USA, having previously run the New York RIBA Chapter. For the past seven years, Clark has been campaigning to reinstate a reciprocal agreement between the UK and US for architect’s licenses. As part of their Barriers to Trade initiative, Clark worked closely with the British government and with both the architectural professions regulatory bodies in the UK and US to speak to the value of this policy change on a personal level, and on behalf of RIBA’s US members, and future generations of architects on both sides of the Atlantic. Her architectural experience ranges from master-planning social housing for a 10 hectare site in Hampshire, UK, an RIBA Award-winning nursery school in Brixton, London, to working on New York City’s first "green school." In her personal practice in New York she has undertaken high-end residential designs for prominent fashion families in "white glove apartments" and many family residences in Brooklyn. Her work has been featured in Design Brooklyn, Bespoke Careers' book The Culture of Practice, and New Yorker Magazine. Clark studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and helped establish the RIBA Part 3 Course in NYC. She is also a Part 3 Architectural Professional License examiner with a specialty in international candidates. As President of RIBA-USA, Catherine was part of the working group to support the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Brooklyn gain it’s dual NAAB and RIBA accreditation in 2021.