Katherine Teh-White
Managing Director, Futureye
Managing Director
Community Service and Engagement, Entertainment, Feminist Policy and Politics, Women’s Affairs, Media and Communications, Organisation Change Management
In 2002 Katherine Teh-White founded Futureye which specialises in social licence strategy and execution. The firm provides sustainability solutions, research, engagement and communication in Australia and undertakes significant projects in Asia and Europe and the Americas. In the past eight years she has also founded WikiCurve that provides a two-way engagement platform on public policy.
Her pioneering social licence to operate methodology has improved the corporate responsibility for a broad range of industries including, food, water, energy, mining and pharmaceutical. She has worked at many different levels from sites, to national and international supply chains when there is reputational, political, regulatory and technical challenges.
Katherine has won a number of awards including the Golden Target award from the Public Relations Institute of Australia (1994), Telstra Business Woman of the Year private sector awardee (2001) and Victorian Women’s Honour Roll (2003). She has been listed in Who’s Who of Australian Women from 2007. In 2015, Katherine was appointed as a Global Advisor for the United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme and is currently a mentor for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Young Innovators Fellowship Programme.