#52: Katherine Trebeck: How the Wellbeing Economy Alliance is helping to build economies of well-being around the world.

Episode #52: Katherine Trebeck Katherine Trebeck is one of the co-founders of the international Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEALL) and his headquartered in Glasgow Scotland. https://wellbeingeconomy.org/ Katherine and I discuss the opportunities for building new economies of well-being around the world whether in her home in Scotland, Canada, New Zealand, Iceland and now Amsterdam. The Covid-19 situation has challenged every nation to consider an alternative economic system that focuses more on building back better where better is defined more in terms of improving the conditions of well-being for all rather than purely maximizing GDP or economic growth. Katherine is the Policy and Knowledge lead at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, which works to amplify the work of others in the movement for a wellbeing economy. Her book The Economics of Arrival co-authored with Jeremy Williams, explores a new mantra for development that shifts attention from growth to quality and distribution of economic activity as we seek to 'make ourselves at home’ in a wealthy world. Before her current role, Katherine was Policy and Advocacy Manager for Oxfam’s UK Programme, and prior to this, she led research and policy for Oxfam’s Scotland office. Here she developed Oxfam’s Humankind Index, a measure of Scotland’s real prosperity developed through wide-ranging community consultation. She has been a Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow where her work included analysis of community development, corporate social responsibility and social housing. Katherine has a PhD in political science from The Australian National University, where her thesis considered techniques utilised by Aboriginal communities to compel mining companies to recognise and respond to community demands. She is an Honorary Professor at the University of the West of Scotland, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde.