Katherine Trebeck

Katherine is a political economist, writer and advocate for economic system change. Her roles include writer-at-large at the University of Edinburgh, Economic Change Lead at The Next Economy, and a Strategic Advisor for the Centre for Policy Development. She co-founded the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) and also WEAll Scotland, its Scottish hub, and she instigated the group of Wellbeing Economy Governments (WEGo). She is a member of the Club of Rome and her board roles have included a range of groups such as Hands Across Canberra, Denmark’s Wellbeing Economy Lab, the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity, and The Democracy Collaborative. She is 2024 thinker-in-residence at the Australian Health Promotion Association, was 2023 thinker-in-residence at ANU’s Planetary Health Hothouse, and is a New Economics Senior Fellow at the ZOE Institute. She has over eight years’ experience in various roles with Oxfam GB and has Bachelor Degrees in Economics and in Politics (University of Melbourne) and holds a PhD in Political Science from the Australian National University.