Anita Thompson

Anita Thompson is the Head of Marketing & Communications APAC at LOD. Prior to their current role, Anita was with Heartache To Hope, Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF), and LOD. Anita started their career with Ashurst in 2007 as a Senior HR Manager. In this role, they were responsible for managing the Corporate Department, which included 50 partners and 200 staff. Her responsibilities included building and sustaining relationships with partners, managing the annual appraisal and career path process, advising on employee relations issues, advising on remuneration, overseeing the process for internal and external secondments, and managing a firm-wide secretarial redundancy process.

Anita Thompson has a Masters of Business Technology from UNSW and a Bachelor of Business from University of Technology Sydney.

Their manager is Brett Menadue, Head of Asia & Middle East.