Our Team
Anthea Roberts
Founder and CEO
As an interdisciplinary researcher, Anthea focuses on new ways of thinking about complex and evolving fields and she developed the frameworks on which Dragonfly Thinking’s AI tools are based. Anthea has taught at the ANU, LSE, Columbia and Harvard with the League of Scholars ranking her as the world’s leading international law scholar (2019) and Australia’s leading international law scholar (2022, 2023). Anthea’s first book ‘Is International Law International?’ won the the American Society of International Law’s top book prize, and her second book ‘Six Faces of Globalization’ (with Nicolas Lamp) was selected as one of the Best Books of 2021 by the Financial Times and Fortune Magazine. She engages extensively with governments and businesses and previously worked at law firms in New York and London.
Miranda Forsyth
Co-Founder and Director
Miranda is an interdisciplinary socio-legal scholar, with extensive experience in law and society, the Pacific islands justice and governance systems and legal pluralism. She has worked at the ANU and the University of the Pacific. Miranda’s 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.
Nick Lothian
Lead 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 AI at Amplified Intelligence. Nick was a Project Director at the Data2Decisions Co-operative Research Centre, 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.
Aishwarya
Project Manager
Aishwarya is a self starter with more than a decade of work experience in start-ups and small/medium-sized organizations. With her background in finance and entrepreneurship, Aish excels in project management and creative problem-solving. She has worked in managerial roles across a wide spectrum of functional units from membership and operations to marketing and sales. As a natural doer and enabler, she builds and transforms processes to champion organizational growth. At Dragonfly Thinking, Aish is helping to lead on business development and customer engagement. Her expertise and support include project administration and liaison as well as financial and operational management.