Anna Kydd

Anna Kydd is Director of The SHM Foundation and oversees all the Foundation’s work. Anna is particularly interested in how network digital communications can provide opportunities for social change and has considerable experience working in the area of mobile health in Latin America and Africa. She co-founded one of the Foundation’s first projects, Zumbido, in Mexico.

Before her time at The SHM Foundation, Anna worked on research projects for a variety of environmental, public and human-rights organisations worldwide including the Food and Agriculture Organisation, UNESCO in Ghana and the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation. Anna’s educational background is in environment and development, with a Master’s in Planning and Development from the Development Planning Unit at University College London. Anna is based in the UK, and is a Trustee of Altro Foundation, whose mission is to transform healthcare spaces to help vulnerable communities around the world.