Prof Pamela Hanrahan

Dr Pamela Hanrahan is a lawyer, company director and author who specialises in corporate law, corporate governance, ESG reporting and engagements, and financial services regulation. She is Emerita Professor of Commercial Law and Regulation at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Business School, a Senior Fellow of the Melbourne Law School, and a consultant at law firm Johnson Winter Slattery. Pamela is Chair of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, a member of the National Corporate Governance Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a member of the Conexus Institute Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Society of Investment Law (USA), a Fellow of FINSIA and a solicitor member of the Law Society of New South Wales. In 2010-11 she was the Queensland Regional Commissioner of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and in 2013-15 served as the Registrar of Community Housing for New South Wales. In 2016-17 Pamela was an appointed member of the ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce and in 2018 she was an adviser to the Hayne Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry.