Katharine’s research focuses on competition law (particularly misuse of market power), consumer protection and data privacy in financial services regulation. She is the convenor of the new postgraduate course, ‘Financial Law and Regulation in the Age of Fintech’ at UNSW Law, and a Member of the Advisory Board of the Future of Finance Initiative in India. Before joining the faculty, Katharine was a Research Fellow on the UNSW Digital Financial Services Research Team, conducting in-depth research into the regulation of digital financial services in developing countries in particular, including through fieldwork in these countries. Katharine has also practised as a commercial lawyer in major law firms, as a barrister in Melbourne, and consulted to the Competition Commission of South Africa during the six years that she lived and worked in South Africa.