Our Team
Meet the Team
Anthea Roberts
Founder and Director
Anthea is a Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University (ANU), where she is Director of the ANU Centre for International Governance and Justice and Chair of the Working Group on Geoeconomics. Anthea is a repeat Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and previously held Associate Professorships at the London School of Economics and Columbia Law School. Anthea engages extensively with governments and worked at law firms in New York and London prior to becoming an academic.
As an interdisciplinary researcher, Anthea focuses on new ways of thinking about complex and evolving global fields. Her research areas include international law, trade and investment, geoeconomics, and navigating complexity. The League of Scholars ranked Anthea as the world’s leading international law scholar (2019) and Australia’s leading international law scholar (2022, 2023). Her books have won international awards, including the American Society of International Law’s top book prize, and have been listed as one of the Best Books of the Year by the Financial Times and Fortune Magazine.
Miranda Forsyth
Co-Founder and Director
Miranda is a Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the ANU, where she is co-Director of the Centre for Restorative Justice, Co-Leader with Anthea of the ANU project on Governing in Complexity, and an ARC Future Fellow leading a project on diverse forms of violence and peacemaking in Papua New Guinea.
Miranda is an interdisciplinary socio-legal scholar, with extensive experience in law and society, the Pacific islands justice and governance systems and legal pluralism. Her expertise includes law, anthropology, restorative justice, criminology and complexity theory. A natural collaborator, Miranda is part of research and practitioner networks locally and across the world, fostering dialogue and learning around her areas of expertise.
Technical Team
Bernard Duggan
Software Developer
Bernard is a software developer with 25 years of industry experience in fields ranging from games to robotics to telephony and video conferencing. He has led engineering teams at Circles and ShoreTel architecting, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable back-end servers. CE Duggan has developed software in languages ranging from MIPS assembly to Elixir, including C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Erlang, and Perl. Beyond standard PCs, he has worked on a broad range of platforms including the Playstation 1 and 2, Arduino and x86-based robotics, and Cisco phones. His specialist skills include 3D graphics, distributed and fault-tolerant system design, performance optimisation, and low-level debugging and network analysis.
Nick Lothian
AI Engineer
Nick is an AI expert, software developer, and product manager who has worked extensively in the technology sector. Nick is the founder and CEO of Tyto.AI – an artificial intelligence consultancy and product company based in Australia. He was formerly Head of Product at Verida, a data privacy and blockchain company, and previously served as Head of Artificial Intelligence at Amplified Intelligence. Nick was a Project Director at the Data2Decisions Co-operative Research Centre (D2DCRC) leading multiple machine learning and AI projects with defence and security agencies. He was Managing Director of Startup Adelaide from 2019-2020 and was on the board for 5 years. He also co-founded the Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Network.
Broader Network
Rocky Heckman
CEO of Cyber Dynamo Pty Ltd
A consultant to Dragonfly Thinking, Rocky has extensive experience in the software and IT industry spanning development, developer process, AI, cybersecurity, cloud architecture, GRC, and AR/MR/VR. His focus has been on the secure adoption of emerging technologies such as AI. Rocky is a Microsoft veteran with 17 years of deep technology experience across cybersecurity, emerging technology adoption and advanced cloud computing for national security. He managed multi-disciplinary teams with a remit to work with National Security customers on advanced projects in classified environments.
Aishwarya
Project Coordinator
Aishwarya manages projects for Anthea and Miranda at the ANU and is also on the ANU Dragonfly Thinking team for the CSIRO ON Accelerate 8 program where she helps to lead on business development and customer engagement. Aish has a background in finance and entrepreneurship with a decade of work experience in start-ups and small/medium-sized organizations. Her business development and project support range from membership and grant administration to financial and operational management.