Katy Cooper

Director - Appointed November 2022

Katy is a certified Futurist, trained through Institute for the Future, POLI-Design at Milan Politechnik and Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies. She has also studied Disruptive Innovation at INSEAD. Katy has 20 years’ experience in retail, customer experience and strategic management, human resources, financial services, tourism and hospitality and technology industries. She is currently the Director City Futures for the City of Hobart, where her team is focused on engaging, creating and planning around future stories, strategic plans, urban design and mobility. Katy is a board member of Tasmanian Leaders Inc and Inclusive Innovations Tasmania, and she is Program Director of FutureFest Tasmania and Founder and Managing Director at DisruptiveCo.