Catherine Fitzpatrick unmasks and disrupts financial abuse – exposing how domestic abusers weaponise everyday products and advising governments, regulators and businesses internationally on how to close the loopholes.
A former bank executive turned social entrepreneur, she pioneered financial safety by design after uncovering widespread abuse in online banking and leading industry-wide reforms to stop it.
Her Designed to Disrupt® reports and Respect and Protect™ campaign have driven world-first reforms across more than 10 sectors to ban product misuse and make 20 million customers safer.
A recognised global expert, Catherine is Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales School of Social Sciences and co-founder of the One Generation business alliance against domestic abuse with not-for-profit Thriving Communities Australia. Her award-winning work challenges leaders to rethink risk and redesign for safety – because if you can map customer journeys, you can map misuse journeys too.