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Mariana Zafeirakopoulos is a Senior Fellow with the Social Cyber Institute. She is a  transdisciplinary researcher and practitioner with a background in law, international relations, public policy and design. Mariana worked for the Australian public service and in International Organisation for over 15 years, practicing and teaching Strategic insight, innovation and futures thinking before moving solely into design practice exploring areas like Human-Centred-Design, Social Systems Design and Strategic Design.

Mariana Zafeirakopoulos is a member of the Board of the Social Cyber Institute and one of its Senior Fellows. She is a futures designer, systems thinker and transdisciplinary practitioner working at the intersection of complex systems, technology, strategy and human-centred design. Currently Principal and Practice Lead for Systems Excellence and Technology Management at Frazer-Nash Consultancy, she brings experience spanning national security and intelligence, government, academia, strategic design and innovation. Her research and practice explore how systems thinking, design and futures approaches can help organisations understand complexity, make better strategic decisions and address complex socio-technical challenges. Her PhD research explored knowledge co-production using design-based approaches to knowledge integration to complex and emerging national security and intelligence challenges.

Mariana Zafeirakopoulos

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