Member since Sep 2020
Anna leads Flux Compass, a Hong Kong-based innovation agency supporting business and civil society organisations to embrace change for a sustainable future. Recent engagements include a Green Deal visions toolkit for Young Friends of the Earth Europe, a design lab for the UNDP City Experiment Fund and a scenarios process for UNICEF’s Iraq office. Before setting up Flux Compass, Anna worked for Forum for the Future in London as the Editor of its sustainable solutions magazine Green Futures, and then moved to Singapore as Curator of the Futures Centre. Anna is also a certified life coach and the author of two books: The Innovation-Friendly Organization (2017) and The Brand Strategist’s Guide to Desire (2014). She loves being outdoors, writing and running - in any combination!
Five futures thinkers share their insights on what’s slow, stuck or seemingly constant – and what we can do. There’s so much talk about the accelerating pace of change. One…
Can the crisis compel us to put care at the heart of family support systems? Anna Simpson reflects on emerging possibilities that could lead to a better balance. “What makes…
Where can we invest now to reduce long-term inequality in the COVID-19 recovery? COVID-19 both exposed and exacerbated cruel social divides. Across the world, not only have poor people suffered…
What’s the role of narratives and how do we update them once they’ve become obsolete? Anna Simpson discusses the process of shifting narratives in follow up to 2020, the agents…
We need time to reflect on our shifting cities. In 2008, for the first time in human history, more than half the world’s population was living in cities. Come 2018,…
In 2020, more organisations have recognised the need for transformative action, egged on by workforces looking to their employers for leadership on social and environmental challenges. Where to begin? Forum…
Microsoft Ireland anticipates that 50% of the country’s professionals will never return to the office full-time, following a study conducted by Boston Consulting Group and KRC Research. Microsoft is one…
The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), established in 2010 and comprising major regional and global players, including Amazon, Airbnb, Apple, Facebook, Grab, Google and Linkedin, has condemned the lack of transparency…
We’re entrusting ever more aspects of our lives, identities and relationships to the digital realm, but what level of trust do we feel? And are we making conscious choices about…
Now is the time to ask what role we want tech to play in our future, and how we can make sure it works in favour of healthy societies.
Citizen assemblies in France and the UK are meeting online to shape public policies for the recovery, in response to social distancing measures.
The Chief Executive of Rio Tinto, the world’s second largest metals and mining corporation, has quit over the destruction of a sacred aboriginal site in Western Australia.
Facebook has recently shared partial information with the Independent Investigative Mechanism on Myanmar (IIMM) regarding content it removed in 2018 and withheld for over a year, after the UN body accused it of withholding evidence of serious hate crimes against the Rohingya.
Why empowering young people is crucial to any sustainable recovery – and could be the key to building resilient, regenerative societies.
Edtech unicorn Guild Education has built a platform, Next Chapter, to enable laid-off workers to reskill and access career services and new job opportunities, in an acquisition deal valued at…
