Professor Katherine Daniell is Director of the Australian National University’s School of Cybernetics and a John Monash Scholar. Trained in engineering, arts and public policy, Katherine’s work focusses on collaborative approaches to policy, action and education for sustainable development. Katherine has a particular interest in systems and cybernetic approaches to understanding the role of technologies shaping societies and environments, such as AI and infrastructure systems. She is also a globally recognised expert in participatory methods for supporting decision-making and governance in complex systems and is an Advisory Council Member for the World Economic Forum Top 10 Emerging Technologies. Katherine was the inaugural convenor of the experimental and radically transdisciplinary Master of Applied Cybernetics from 2018 to 2022 and has worked for many years in research and innovation cooperation between sectors and countries. Her work has been acknowledged by multiple awards and honours, including the French Chevalier (Knight) in the Ordre National du Mérite.