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Kate Read
Head of Research
Kate joined Chambers as a researcher in the Europe team, before her promotion to Research Manager on the UK guide. She has since rejoined the EMEA team as Head of Europe Research.
Before starting at Chambers, she lived and worked in the Cévennes, alongside undertaking freelance translation in the hospitality and legal education fields.She graduated from Newcastle University with a degree in Modern Languages (French and German) and has studied Germanistik at the Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, before undertaking an MA in Comparative Literature at Birkbeck University of London.