Christina Allen is a senior lecturer at Curtin University in Western Australia and the academic representative of the Taxation Centre of Excellence at CPA Australia. She was awarded her PhD and master’s degrees in taxation law from the University of Western Australia and graduated as the valedictorian from the Faculty of Business and Law of Edith Cowan University. She has received numerous awards, scholarships and prizes for academic excellence, including the prestigious Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award, and was the finalist for the Leadership in Government award sponsored by the Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand during her employment in the Australian Taxation Office. She widely publishes in taxation law and policy and has a particular interest in the interdisciplinary area of tax and technology. She has held visiting positions at Vienna University of Business and Economics (Austria), University of Cape Town (South Africa), Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (Sydney), York University (Canada) and Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand).

Christina is fluent in Korean.