Katherine Graham Debost ICD.D

Director, Bata Shoe Museum; Advisory Board Member, National Museum of Women in the Arts

Katherine (Katy) Graham Debost has a BA from McGill University (1986) and in 2021 completed the Director’s Education Program ICD.D designation at the University of Toronto. After living in Paris, France, for thirty years, she returned to her native city of Toronto in 2020. Fluently bilingual, Katy is a committed volunteer and fundraiser for internationally recognized arts organizations, including the Bata Shoe Museum Foundation, Toronto (where she has been a director since 2022), and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Washington, D.C. (where she was Board President of Les Amis du NMWA from 2015 to 2019). Since 2003, Katy has been a Shareholder Panel member of Graymont Limited, Vancouver. She is a director of the newly created N’Oubliez Charitable Foundation, also based in Vancouver.