Dr Trish Lavery is an academic and policy expert. She works in the central strategy team of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, is a Visiting Fellow with the School of Cybernetics, Australian National University and a Senior Fellow of Futures and Human Behaviour at the Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications, London.

As former OECD Strategic Foresight Counsellor, Trish has experience in applying futures, foresight and behavioural economics to help facilitate better executive and board decision making, more resilient long-term public policy and more effective corporate strategy.

Trish is a member of the OECD AI Futures Expert Working Group, and is an active contributor to a number of current research projects, on topics including mis- and disinformation, geoengineering and neurotechnology. She is passionate about putting a deeper understanding of human behaviour into the centre of discussions on emerging technologies and trends.