Her job is to get scientific expertise into the heads of decision-makers.
Trade Talk: Policy Analyst, published on 12 November 2015, is an interview with Catherine Ball, as part of the Nature Careers Trade Talk series. In the interview, Catherine tells of her work with the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee in the United Kingdom.
I wrote some more words about Catherine on the Naturejobs blog: Finding job satisfaction as a policy analyst.
Go to the orginal article here or listen below