Anastasia Simone

Senior Art Director, Host/Havas Australia

Hong Kong-grown, Anastasia's work explores the way we participate with, protect, share, and evolve culture. In 2022 and 2023, she served on the D&AD jury for gaming and virtual worlds, proudly representing Black female nerds and the glorious diversity of gaming. Anastasia was also selected to take part in Cannes See It Be It, a unique development experience to close the gender gap among creative industry leaders. In her free time, you can find her building megabases in Minecraft survival, writing and illustrating children’s books based on African history and folk tales, or reading anything with dragons