Katie Steele

Biography

Katie Steele is a Professor of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. She arrived at the ANU in 2016, having spent eight years in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. Her research spans the different aspects of rational or wise decision-making, both for individuals and collectives, including the representation and management of uncertainty and notions of individual and social welfare. Her current project is about how we should best understand the popular concepts of ‘precaution’ and ‘sustainability’ in the context of public decision making and priority setting. Katie has been a Principal Investigator on a number of grant projects, most recently the Climate Ethics and Future Generations project hosted at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. In 2021 she received an ANU Vice Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence. In 2023 she delivered the Parfit Memorial Lecture at the University of Oxford. She is currently an Editor of the journal Economics & Philosophy.