Kate Russell, Chief Operating Officer

Kate Russell BSc(Hons) FRICS FAAV PMIAgrM CEnv is an agricultural valuer, chartered surveyor and chartered environmentalist with more than 25 years’ experience in rural land management, rural policy development and stakeholder engagement.

After a degree in in rural land management from the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Kate spent over a decade working as an agricultural valuer in private practice in Cumbria, Wiltshire and Lincolnshire. She later returned to the Royal Agricultural College to spend several years as a senior lecturer in estate management.

She then spent 13 years working as a technical and policy adviser for the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV), supporting and briefing 2,900 agricultural valuers across the UK on a wide range of matters connected to rural land and property.

She is the author of a number of CAAV technical publications, has spoken widely at conferences and has been closely involved in rural policy development. She has sat on numerous stakeholder groups on subjects as diverse as energy efficiency and telecommunications masts, seeking always to find common ground between those with differing views.

In 2021 Kate was awarded the Kenneth Glenny Prize by the CAAV for her outstanding contribution to the work of the Association.