Anne Kruger

Adjunct Assistant Professor
akruger@hku.hk

Currently Director and Senior Research Fellow of CrossCheck at RMIT University. Anne leads collaborative research and practice hubs advising stakeholders on how to preemptively navigate a complex digital information landscape including deep fakes and AI. She was the recipient of the 2021 UNESCO International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) grant, and published a verification and responsible reporting guide for practitioners in Southeast Asia. Anne is Chair and Complaints Subcommittee Board Member for Australia’s Misinformation and Disinformation Regulatory Code of Practice.

Anne was previously a world news anchor and finance presenter at CNN Hong Kong during SARS; and later a finance reporter/anchor at Bloomberg TV Hong Kong. She has also worked for public broadcasters RTHK (Hong Kong) and the ABC (Australia). She established a verification lab at the University of Hong Kong collaborating with technologists Meedan in 2014 as part of her PhD.