Professor Philippa Ryan

Philippa (Pip) Ryan is a Barrister and Associate Professor of Law at the Australian National
University. She is a member of the Treasury Audit Committee and in her role on the
Standards Australia blockchain technical committee, she is the lead author of the
international standards for smart contracts. Pip is a non-executive director on the board of
Australian law firm, Lander & Rogers and she is on the editorial board of Stanford's Journal
of Blockchain Law and Policy. Ryan’s research explores the automation of trust, the
accountability of algorithms, and the creeping tendency of regulators in developed
economies to blame professionals, service providers and financial institutions for the sins of
their employees, customers and strangers. In 2018, Ryan was the first Australian recipient of
the American Bar Association’s Legal Rebel Award. Ryan’s recent publications include
Blockchain: Transforming Your Business and Our World (Routledge 2019) and Trust and
Distrust in Digital Economies (Routledge 2020).