Dr Katherine Hunt

About Katherine

Dr Katherine Hunt holds a PhD in the Law and Economics of Microfinance from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Hamburg, and the University of Bologna. She is a former tenured academic at Griffith University, a qualified financial planner with Aspire Financial Planning, and the author of the textbooks Everyday Ethics for Financial Advisers and Ethics in Banking and Finance — along with dozens of peer-reviewed articles that shape how professionals in those industries think and act. Her background spans psychology, commerce, and finance, and her field experience extends from Pakistan to Bhutan. She is, in her own words, where ethics meets psychology, and AI ideas turn into action.

What distinguishes Hunt is the rare combination of academic rigour, financial practice experience, and a delivery style that is — by consistent audience account — high-energy, funny, and brutally practical. She does not lecture on ethics from a distance; she shows professionals where digital tools erode trust, why customers don't simply buy products but buy confidence and meaning, and how to make decisions that no algorithm can make for them. Her ASPIRE decision model and ETHOS framework for responsible AI adoption give audiences concrete tools they can apply the following morning. She also makes the point plainly: you cannot delegate ethics — especially not to a system trained on the whole of the internet.

Dr Hunt is a strong fit for financial services, professional services, and technology conferences where trust, customer psychology, and AI governance intersect. Her three core keynotes — on customer psychology in a digital world, ethical decision-making versus AI, and future-proof leadership in hybrid and multigenerational teams — each deliver both sharp insight and exercises audiences can act on immediately. For event organisers looking for a speaker who will be remembered as much for the laughs as the frameworks, Hunt is a distinctive choice.