About Dragonfly Thinking

Built by experts who know the work, not just the tools.

Dragonfly combines domain expertise, structured analytical methodology, and AI-native workflows to help organisations make better decisions under uncertainty.

Our story

Two best friends, one eye for complexity.

Dragonfly Thinking started with a friendship and a shared frustration. Anthea Roberts and Miranda Forsyth — both interdisciplinary academics — kept watching complex problems get reduced to siloed analysis and polarised debates. In geoeconomics, Anthea saw this in the tensions between economic and security framing. In the Pacific, Miranda saw this in simplified explanations about what causes violence.

They knew the best thinking happened when you held multiple perspectives in tension and considered the systemic interaction of multiple drivers. Anthea had spent a career studying how people see the same problems through different lenses. Miranda has focused on how different elements interacted to create complex effects. When generative AI arrived, they saw an opportunity to make multi-perspective analysis and systems analysis practical at scale, not just an academic ideal.

Dragonfly won Australia's inaugural AI Sprint in 2024. Since then, the team has grown to include Sue Brake as Chair, bringing three decades of institutional investment experience and pioneering work on the Total Portfolio Approach. They are joined by an interdisciplinary team of designers and AI-native practitioners, creating a new type of company for a new age of intelligence.

Anthea Roberts and Miranda Forsyth, co-founders of Dragonfly Thinking

Miranda Forsyth and Anthea Roberts, co-founders

Leadership
Anthea Roberts

Anthea Roberts

Founder, Director & CEO

Built Dragonfly's analytical methodology — 13 lens agents, 70+ skills, structured multi-lens synthesis. Ranked the world's leading international law scholar by League of Scholars (2019). Author of Six Faces of Globalization (FT and Fortune Best Book, 2021). Has taught at ANU, Harvard, Columbia and LSE.

Sue Brake

Sue Brake

Chair of the Board & Investment Vertical Lead

One of the pioneering practitioners of the Total Portfolio Approach to investing. Former Chief Investment Officer of Australia's A$300 billion Future Fund Management Agency. Leads Dragonfly Investing, integrating TPA discipline with Dragonfly's methodology for sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and endowments.

Miranda Forsyth

Miranda Forsyth

Co-Founder

Interdisciplinary socio-legal professor with expertise spanning law and society, Pacific islands justice and governance, legal pluralism, and complexity theory. Has taught at the ANU and the University of the South Pacific. Leads Dragonfly Learning's executive education approach, collaborating across research and practitioner networks globally.

Team
Aishwarya

Aishwarya

AI and operations

Leads Dragonfly's finance and project management operations. 10+ years in startups and SMEs with a finance and entrepreneurship background, spanning operations, business development, and pilot engagement.

Linda Phompak

Linda Phompak

AI and design

Leads Dragonfly's visual and design work. Interdisciplinary designer with a background in architecture and interaction design, and a track record of award-winning applications across enterprise technology, agencies, startups, and government.

Sam Barton

Sam Barton

AI and education

Leads Dragonfly's courses and AI education. Background in complex systems and philosophy, with a decade in startups before this. Avid AI user and follower of recent trends and development.

Advisors & Collaborators

Huw McKay

Advisor

Former Chief Economist, BHP

Air Vice-Marshal John Blackburn AO (Retd)

Advisor

National resilience

David Wilkins

Advisor

Harvard Law School

Tim Hodgson

Dragonfly Expert

Focus on Dragonfly Investing