Season 2 · Episode 20 · 30 Jan 2026
20 - Katherine Trebeck
With Katherine Trebeck
““The ambition is to raise our gaze from just treating the symptoms of an inhumane economic system. Helping people survive and cope is humanitarian work and it’s wonderful and necessary but how can we go beyond that”?”
Reflections
Q1: Place
If we could do a flypast on any part of the world that is significant to you, which place, city or country would it be and why?
My adopted home of Scotland
Q2: Life
Give us a glimpse into your life story so far with an emphasis on what you are doing currently?
Australia, Indigenous communities, inequality and power structures, Oxfam, changing the economic system, The economics of arrival book with Jeremy Williams, WEAll and WEGo
Q3: Reset
Where on earth is your place or reset or re-charge?
Red Hill in Canberra, Australia
Q4: Wonder
What wonder of the natural world excites you the most?
Seeing regrowth after a bush fire
Q5: Hopefulness
What is your story of hopefulness (not your own) about a person, business or non-profit who are doing amazing things for the world?
Galgael in Glasgow provides skills, purpose and community to people coming out of prison or struggling with addiction.
Q6: Insight
As we prepare to re-enter, what insight, wisdom or question would you like to share with us?
Let's continually ask ‘but why'? Why are people needing foodbanks, medical attention for stress? Why are people turning to drugs and alcohol? Why are people feeling lonely? Why are people committing suicide? Why are we pushing the planet, beyond the brink?
Location
Flyover
My adopted home of Scotland
Guest
Glasgow (Scotland)