Robyn Bennett

Robyn Bennett co-leads Expanding Civilizational Optionality (xCO) at Dark Matter Labs, a body of work focused on how we keep futures open in a time of degenerative volatility, weaving together systemic finance, risk intelligence, governance design and large-scale organising. A linguist and social anthropologist at heart, she comes to it from a decade in cross-sector innovation: co-building the Creative Bureaucracy Festival into a global platform for public sector transformation, and working with the African Centre for Cities, the Goethe-Institut, and the School of International Futures, among others. Based in Berlin, she co-hosts the Womxn ∞ Power community, co-writes the Substack Money, Honey?, and is an inaugural fellow of The Institutional Architecture Lab (TIAL).