Currently Principal at her own boutique firm providing political advocacy services and strategic advice to the creative industries, Ger previously headed up the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) as CEO. During her tenure at ICMP she spearheaded the industry's representation to WIPO and the European Union and organised the strategy of the association across its 58 countries and territories worldwide. Prior to that Hatton worked for clients that include the Governments of Samoa, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, a variety of public sector and corporate clients in Poland, Lativa, Hungary, Belgium and the UK, and for the European Commission and the World Bank. She was nine years with the Ogilvy group as Director of Public Policy at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, and advised Governments, Ministries and NGO clients on policy issues pertaining to governance, privatisation, rule of law anti-corruption, reform initiatives, institutional strengthening and civil society inclusion. Ger has an active interest in cross cultural functioning having served for over ten years in various capacities with AFS, the world’s largest intercultural learning organisation including serving as Chair of the Board of Directors of EFIL - (AFS in Europe) - the European Federation for Intercultural Learning.