Bernise Ang is a fellow at RC4. As a practitioner in systems thinking and international development, she has conducted qualitative and quantitative research from the field to inform the decision making of government leaders in social policy domains such as rapid urbanisation, youth unemployment, and others. In her role as Principal at Zeroth Labs, a systems research firm, she developed the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Asia Pacific’s first systems research approach.

Her teaching experience includes co-teaching a summer programme on complexity and systems thinking (CAST) since 2020 at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS, capstone advisory for the Master of Tri-Sector Collaboration at the Singapore Management University, among others.

She studied psychology at the University of New South Wales, and her work now involves bringing together methods from behavioural science, anthropology, applied mathematics and others to make complexity science more applicable and useful to addressing the grand challenges facing the world today.

Her research interests include the application of network theory to advancing quantitative ways of understanding phenomenon in fragile states and social systems with high economic inequality. Her notable achievements include staring down a foreign minister and making 3 ambassadors cry while arguing for fossil fuel energy transition as a youth activist at UN climate negotiations.