Katherine Trebeck

Katherine Trebeck

Expertise: Sustainable prosperity, wellbeing economy, system change

Dr Katherine Trebeck is a political economist and advocate for economic system change. Her roles include writer-at-large at the University of Edinburgh and consultant to the Club of Rome. She is ‘thinker-in-residence’ at ANU’s Planetary Health Hothouse.

She co-founded the Wellbeing Economy Alliance and also WEAll Scotland, its Scottish hub, and instigated the group of Wellbeing Economy Governments (WEGo).

Her most recent book The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown Up Economy (co-authored with Jeremy Williams and published by Policy Press) was published in January 2019 and her major report Being Bold: Budgeting for Children’s Wellbeing was launched in March 2021.

Publications

The Fifth Wellbeing Government Roundtable brought together senior government officials from multiple departments across six
Part 10 of the Wellbeing Economy in Brief series explores the pervasiveness of GDP as
Part 9 of the Wellbeing Economy in Brief series looks at how the wellbeing economy
Part 8 of the Wellbeing Economy in Brief series contextualises the wellbeing economy among a
Part 7 of the Wellbeing Economy in Brief series proposes a clear sequence for embedding
Part 6 of the Wellbeing Economy in Brief series assembles the jigsaw of multiple pieces

In the media

People expect politicians and public officials to design economic systems that promote wellbeing, enable good lives and support opportunity
The federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has released Australia's first well-being framework. He says it's all about better aligning what we Australians want for our economy with what we want for our communities and broader society.
Australia needs a ‘wellbeing economy’ because traditional 20th-century approaches are not working, according to an expert in the field. Political economist Katherine Trebeck told The Mandarin while lessons can be learned from capitalism and socialism, issues of inequality and climate
Momentum is growing within Australia and around the world to change the way we measure economic growth. What else can and should be included to measure the health of a nation? Time is one suggestion but all options are on the
Education standards, the quality of health services and the state of the environment will form the starting point for the nation’s first “wellbeing” budget as Treasurer Jim Chalmers attempts to measure what matters to Australians.
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