Kate Rowell
Job Title:
Vice-Chair - The Moredun Foundation
Biography
Kate is a qualified veterinary surgeon and farmer. She worked in a small, mixed veterinary practice in the Durham Dales for 7 years and for the last 24 years has been running the family farm, along with her husband where they have a herd of 80 suckler cows as well as lowland and hill sheep flocks totalling around 1,000 ewes. The business has participated in several environmental schemes.
Kate was a member of the Board of Quality Meat Scotland for 2 years before becoming its current Chair in 2018. She comes to the end of her term as QMS Chair in late 2026.
Kate is a member of the Trade and Agriculture Commission, a body set up by the UK Government to scrutinise new Free Trade Agreements before ratification by Parliament. Kate also sits on the Scottish Government Agricultural Reform Implementation Oversight Board (ARIOB) which is supporting implementation of agricultural policy reform.
Kate is a member of Moredun’s South of Scotland Regional Advisors Committee and is a Moredun Research Institute Board member.
