Dr Rob Nicholls is an associate professor in regulation and governance at the UNSW Business School. He is also a visiting professional fellow at UTS Sydney Law. His research interests focus on the intersection of regulation and technology. He heads the UNSW Business School Regulatory Laboratory and is a deputy director of the UNSW Institute for Cyber Security. He is a member of the UNSW Business Insights Institute. Rob has had a forty-year career concentrating on competition, regulation and governance. His first degree was in electronics and communications engineering from the University of Birmingham and he was awarded his PhD and MA by UNSW Sydney. Before moving to academia, he worked for Webb Henderson, the ACCC and spent twelve years as a client-facing consultant at Gilbert + Tobin, including as a partner. Rob is an accredited mediator.