Catriona Knapman is an experienced international development consultant with knowledge in gender, climate change, land governance, and participatory frameworks. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Law and French, later pursuing an LLM in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Knapman has extensive experience as a researcher, journalist, and legal professional, working with Amnesty International, the European Court of Justice, and Trocaire. She also holds a Master's module in Development from The Open University.

Currently working as an Independent Consultant, Knapman supports organizations in the international development sector to design and facilitate workshops, online spaces, evaluations, research, writing, editing, and social media. She designed an online Covid-19 sensitive evaluation strategy for International Finance Cooperation and led an interactive online training for law departments in Mandalay and Yangon universities. She has also supported indigenous women in Myanmar to write about their experience of climate change for the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA).