Development and Humanitarian Futures
Navigating Uncertainty for Systemic Transformation
What I Believe
My work focuses on reimagining futures for social change, the ecosystem in which it operates in and on strategic organisational transformation required to make change happen. I work at the intersection of humanitarian futures, strategic foresight, and systems transformation.
I am inherently curious about how things work and about why things don't — and how do we need to shift the systemic and structural pillars that we don't necessarily talk about to actually drive change. I push and provoke on issues of equity, intersectionality, power and privilege — and how we might transform them to more decolonised, equitable and feminist futures.
Learn more about me with this recent talk I did with the Institute for the Future on Equity and Decolonisation - Transformation at the Intersection of Aid, Policy and Foresight.
How do we be good ancestors? How do we create a plurality of futures where multiple words can exist?
What I’ve done
Strategic Foresight & Anticipatory Governance
Co-lead the global consultation, design and development of the Global RCRC Strategy 2030 across 191 countries, utilising futures, and systems analysis to drive a futures-focused global humanitarian strategy for the entire Red Cross Movement for the next decade.
Anticipatory Governance and Refugee Protection in North Macedonia, 2020
Embedding Institutional Strategic Foresight Capabilities
Lead the embedment and design for humanitarian futures and strategic foresight across the Red Cross Red Crescent network in 191 countries
Tripartite inter-agency humanitarian futures for #newnormals post-COVID, 2020
Building Capabilities for Futures Thinking, UN Cambodia and Royal Cambodian Government, 2020
Embedding Futures Capabilities, ICRC, 2020
“Imagining Feminist Futures post-COVID 19” for International Womens Development Agency in partnership with Changeist. 2020
Experiential Futures
“The Future is Now”, for the 2017 RCRC General Assembly in partnership with a wide range of experiential futures designers
"Encountering the Future: Community Resilience in Emergencies” for Nesta UK, in partnership with Changeist
Futures Research and Analysis
Thematic Futures Research Analysis for Red Cross Red Crescent, 2017
Flourishing in the New Normal, UNV, 2020
“Equitable and Plural Technology Futures”, for Omidyar Network and Superflux, 2020
Future of Health Systems, World Bank, 2020
Speaker and Keynote Presenter
Represented through BrightSight Group
‘Cold Hard Truths of Privilege’, States of Change Learning Festival, 2020
Why Futures and Why Now, UN Peer Learning, 2020
‘Fit for the Future’, States of Change, 2020
“Speculative Futures - Stretching the Frontiers of Humanitarian Thinking”, MSF, 2020
The West’s Humanitarian Reckoning, The New Humanitarian, 2020
The Future of Humanitarianism, Futurists World, 2020
Humanitarian Futures: Perpetuating the Status Quo or Reimagining a Whole New World?
Writing and Blogs
‘Now that we know more, can we do better?', Forum for the Future, 2020
“A world in which many worlds fit”, Global Dashboard, 2020
The Art of Values Based Innovation for Humanitarian Action, SSIR, 2019
Humanitarian Action is going wireless and autonomous, Fast Company, 2018
What will it take for all of us to flourish?
What I am working on
Get in touch for collaboration!
Futures of Development and Strategic Foresight, UNDP
Leading strategic foresight for UNDP Asia Pacific.
Decolonising Humanitarian Digital Policy Governance for Equitable Digital Futures, Harvard University
Technology and Human Rights Fellow - Harvard Kennedy Carr Centre
Fellow at Berkman Klein Centre - Harvard Kennedy Carr Centre
Let’s start a journey to understand how change actually happens within and outside of institutions.
