Menu
We are a team of technical sustainability professionals passionate about the transformative potential of education for sustainability in schools.
We partner with students, facilities managers, teachers, and school leaders to unlock the sustainability learning that is embedded in school campuses and operations.
Kiran is an Environment and Sustainability masters graduate from Monash University, Australia. As a former digital marketer, she has experience in project management, campaign execution and brand development for multiple start-up companies.
Through Metanoia, she looks forward to applying her knowledge in sustainability communications and stakeholder engagement to drive behaviour change and whole school engagement within schools across Asia. Kiran also brings waste expertise to the team from auditing, reporting and providing innovative and circular solutions. Outside of work, Kiran likes to engage in environmental activism; from working with non-profits to reduce plastic pollution, to advocating for animal rights.
Her areas of interest include carbon and ecological footprints, biodiversity loss, sustainable diets, and plastic pollution.
Emma graduated with distinction from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology and Biochemistry. Since graduating, she has worked in the education sector throughout Asia.
She has experience in Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience, SDG-Academy. In Emma’s spare time she wrote for an environmental think-tank. In joining Metanoia, Emma fulfilled a lifelong ambition of working in sustainability for education. Emma’s work ethos has a student-centered approach, she is currently engaged with course generation and delivery for Metanoia’s Project and Placed-Based Learning.
Her areas of interest include carbon and ecological footprints, biodiversity loss, sustainable diets, and plastic pollution.
Oliver holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical and Materials Engineering from the University of Auckland. His experience includes process engineering design for industrial projects across the manufacturing, and energy sectors in New Zealand, Australia, and SE Asia.
More recently, Oliver was a project manager for a tech startup focused on safety and sustainability in the built environment. With Metanoia, Oliver looks forward to applying his technical background and knowledge in energy and carbon management to embed sustainability within schools across Asia and develop the next generation of climate leaders.
His areas of interest include carbon footprints, circularity and bioeconomy, and climate justice.
“One Friday morning in March, 2019, over a thousand Hong Kong students gathered peacefully in Chater Garden to add their voices to those of millions of other school students around the world calling for more urgent progress addressing the climate crisis.
The response to this call, from educators and governments, ranged from condescension to silence, with little in between.
There was barely a word of acknowledgement from those quarters on the central issue – the seriousness of climate change for these students’ futures (Sir David Attenborough has called it “humanity’s greatest threat”) and the disastrous state of the planet they are inheriting from us.
“Our house is on fire and no one’s reacting,” was Greta Thunberg’s furious admonition. Silence and condescension must not be our only responses.
I established Metanoia to offer schools a better way to respond – not merely by making their campuses a little more sustainable, but by engaging wholeheartedly with students to achieve the kind of deep transformation that a sustainable future requires and through that engagement to “make hope possible, rather than despair convincing” in the words of Raymond Williams.”
CEO and Founder, Anthony Dixon
A proud member of
Anthony Dixon is a renewable energy and sustainability expert and the founder of Metanoia and Helios Renewable Energy.
Anthony founded Metanoia to offer schools an opportunity to make a difference to the sustainability of their campus and community through practical, accessible and effective solutions that benefit the operations of a school - while also educating and empowering students.
Anthony's diverse career has included Chief Executive Offer of ASB Biodiesel, Managing Director of Citigroup, Director of China Hydroelectric Corporation, Chief Operating Officer of ZEDfactory (a zero-carbon housing company), and Director of the Solar Electric Light Company.
He holds an undergraduate degree in physics, a masters in renewable energy engineering from Imperial College, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Kiran is an Environment and Sustainability masters graduate from Monash University, Australia. As a former digital marketer, she has experience in project management, campaign execution and brand development for multiple start-up companies.
Through Metanoia, she has applied her knowledge in sustainability communications and stakeholder engagement to drive behaviour change and whole school engagement within schools across Asia. Kiran also brings waste expertise to the team from auditing, reporting and providing innovative and circular solutions. Outside of work, Kiran likes to engage in environmental activism; from working with non-profits to reduce plastic pollution, to advocating for animal rights.
Her passion lies in water sanitation and sustainable agricultural practices.
Emma graduated with distinction from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology and Biochemistry. Since graduating, she has worked in the education sector throughout Asia.
She has experience in Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience, SDG-Academy. In Emma’s spare time she wrote for an environmental think-tank, covering topics ranging from sustainable diets and lifestyles to biodiversity loss and conservation initiatives. Through her work at Metanoia, Emma is fulfilling a lifelong ambition of working in sustainability for education. She is currently working on applied sustainability audits in schools with the aim of helping them become net-zero institutions.
Her areas of interest include sustainability education, biodiversity loss, sustainable diets, and plastic pollution.
Oliver holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical and Materials from the University of Auckland. He began his career as a process engineer in the manufacturing and energy sectors across New Zealand, Australia, and SE Asia. Since moving to Hong Kong, Oliver worked in project management for a tech start-up focused on safety and sustainability in the built environment.
With Metanoia, Oliver looks forward to applying his technical background and knowledge in energy and carbon management to embed sustainability within schools across Asia and develop the next generation of climate leaders.
