Catalina McGregor, Chief Whitehall Advisor, MOD DE&S DSA

Cate McGregor is both Founder and Chair of the CIO / CTO Council Green ICT Delivery Group. It is this unit today that has published the first strategic vision for Greening Government ICT in Europe and has set targets for Central Government CIOs.

She has served two consecutive secondments to the MOD DFN and, more recently, DE&S DSA where she is currently Chief Whitehall Advisor. She is a virtual member of the MOD DE&S sustainable procurement programme board office (SPPB/O). This more recent MOD Board is responsible for sustainable procurement within the MoD and its supply chain. Green ICT is considered a key area for the SPPB for 2008/09. Mrs. McGregor also serves as co-chair of the SOCITM Local Authority Green ICT working group who recently published the “Green ICT Key Principles and Practitioner’s Workbook”.

Prior to the MoD she was Director, Central Government Departments for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) National Aggregation Board (NAB) responsible for some of the first generation aggregated ICT procurement methodologies in use today. She has a comprehensive private sector IT background and was formerly Head of e-business and e-commerce Worldwide for Richemont Luxury Group owners of Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Piaget, Purdey, Hackett, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger-LeCoultre, IWC, Panerai and Montblanc with extensive International e-business investments and interests.