Anne Matthew Email & Phone Number

I have extensive expertise in corporate and commercial law. I am a Lecturer at QUT Law School, a Consultant at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Lawyers, and Chair of the UNCITRAL National Coordination Committee, Australia's Expert Advisory Committee on Working Group I: Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.I teach postgraduate and undergraduate programs in international commercial arbitration, international commercial law and finance, corporate law and the regulation of artificial intelligence and robots. I study how regulation can create an enabling environment for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, including particularly their access to finance. My research focuses on companies engaged in innovation and entrepreneurship. Innovation, entrepreneurship and the risk-taking they entail play a pivotal role in economic growth. Such risk-taking should be encouraged in a modern economy. My PhD thesis considered how to best position the legal environment created by corporate law to encourage these phenomena, particularly among start-up ventures. The thesis explored this question by examining select elements of Australian corporate law through the lens of innovation economics, and broke new ground in doing so. Using principles of neo-Schumpeterian economics, my thesis examined the law from industry, financial and public perspectives, and formulated recommendations for improvement and simplification. My thesis was nominated for QUT’s Outstanding Thesis Award 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/132567/ Professional Associations and Membership:- Admitted to practise as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland 1993- Fellow, UNCITRAL National Coordination Committee, Australia (UNCCA)- Chair, UNCCA Expert Advisory Group for UNCITRAL Working Group I: Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises- Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors - Member of the International Bar Association- Member, Academic Committee of the Banking and Financial Services Law Association- Member, Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research ProgramView my Research Profile at QUT: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Matthew,_Anne.htmlOrcid id: orcid.org/0000-0003-2734-7680

Listed skills include Legal Research, Research, International Commercial Arbitration, Corporate Law, and 22 others.