Katherine Trebeck - An Alternative Economic Narrative

The era of neoliberalism has been destructive on so many levels, with a huge growth in wealth and privilege for the one percent.

A hollowing out of the state; fraying of the safety net; inadequate government investment in infrastructure; and continued environmental degradation has resulted in damage on a vast scale to the climate.

The co-founder of the global Wellbeing Economy Alliance is in Tāmaki Makaurau to discuss an alternative.

Dr Katherine Trebeck is a political economist, author and advocate for economic system change, and founder of the global Wellbeing Economy Alliance. She is a member of the Club of Rome and sits on the boards of Hands Across Canberra, the Wellbeing Economy Lab Denmark, and the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity.

Katherine has eight years’ experience in various roles with Oxfam Great Britain, where she developed Oxfam’s Humankind Index and led Oxfam’s work on downscaling the ‘doughnut’ for various national contexts. She wrote ‘The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown Up Economy (with Jeremy Williams) in 2019 and a major report ‘Being Bold: Budgeting for Children’s Wellbeing’ was launched in March 2021.

Her two Tedx talks are about ‘Why the future economy has to be a wellbeing economy’ and ‘A new definition of wealth and prosperity’.