Katy Hartley

Katy Hartley is the Director for The Philips Center for Health & Well-being. In this role, which she has performed since August 2009, she is responsible for developing and managing The Philips Center for health & Well-being as an independent, creative and innovative platform to collaborate with key global opinion formers.

The Philips Center for Health & Well-being is dedicated to improving quality of life for people around the world, by identifying barriers to health and well-being – and developing solutions to overcome them. Together with a diverse range of independent experts, global agenda setters, policymakers and opinion leaders, the Philips Center for Health & Well-being debates and defines the critical problems that society is facing and recommends solutions for overcoming these problems with the aim of improving health and well-being worldwide.

Prior to joining Philips, Katy worked at Royal Dutch Telecom (KPN) between 2002-2007 eventually heading the Consumer division’s communications team. She also worked at KPNQwest, a start-up European telecoms company in strategic marketing and business development. Katy began her career as an industry analyst for International Data Corporation (IDC) focused on e-business and the development of broadband internet. She has a first class B.A. Hons degree from the University of Exeter in Business Economics with European studies.