Anna Birney

Director, School of System Change, Forum for the Future

Biography

Anna is Director at Forum for the Future where she leads their systems change capacity building work. She found the School of System Change which seeks to build an international learning community of change makers using systemic practices to address complex challenges of our times. She also runs and coaches a number of initiatives including the Marine CoLAB and works with organisations from foundations such as OSF, Caluste Gulbenkian, civil society organisations and businesses. She also cultivates living change inquiries into deeper questions that look to challenge the deeper structures and mental models of the way we live and work. She is the author of Cultivating System Change: A practitioners companion which is based on her PhD of the same title.

Regional Focus

Central and Southern Asia, Europe, North America, Southeast Asia