Astrid Edwards is a Director at Bad Producer Productions. She also teaches at RMIT University, serves on the board of Writers Victoria and is a National Advocate for MS Australia. She was awarded a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow in 2015 for her writing on chronic disease.

She is a former economics and policy consultant, who quit the corporate world to focus on what really matters: making a difference through advocacy and writing.

Astrid has a Master of International Business (cum laude), as well as a Bachelor of Arts (Honours)/Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the University of Sydney. She also has a Graduate Diploma of Legal Studies from the University of Melbourne and the Diplôme de langue et civilisation Françaises from Sorbonne University in Paris. Astrid is a member of Mensa Australia.