Sheree Ip is an Associate Lecturer at Curtin University’s Curtin Law School.

Throughout her professional career, she has engaged with the law in her capacity as an academic, practitioner, consultant and advisor. Sheree has extensive consulting experience working in the technology sector, particularly in the blockchain, cyber security, photonics and artificial intelligence (AI) industries. In her time as a consultant, she has developed the unique ability to navigate emerging technology and the law for her clients. She works across many industry sectors developing disruptive applications, across some of the world’s first deployed products and prototypes in medical, identity, energy, automotive, verification, music and media industries.

She is the past Board Director at the Digital Economy Council of Australia (DECA), formerly Blockchain Australia, contributing to policy reform in the nation. She has over nine years of experience serving on advisory boards for several technology firms. She has contributed to many advocacy and policy efforts across emerging technology sectors including for international standardisation initiatives. She has held positions as director, partner and advisor for technology firms.

As a solicitor Sheree practiced in commercial law and litigation. She holds a Juris Doctor from Murdoch University, a Post Graduate in Chinese Law from City University Hong Kong, a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice from the College of Law, and a Bachelor of Commerce from Curtin University. Sheree is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia.

In academia Sheree focuses on the intersection between digital finance, technology and the law. She is unit coordinating and lecturing digital finance units at Curtin Law School forming part of the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Center’s (DFCRC) Masters of Business Administration specialisiation. She develops and teaches the units Digital Finance and the Law, and the corresponding computer science unit, Blockchain and Technologies in Digital Finance. Sheree has been teaching at Curtin University since 2009, in the delivery of units to Curtin Law School, School of Engineering, Curtin Business School, and School of Architecture.