Monday 5 July 2021

Welcoming Prof. Hannah Yee-Fen Lim as a co-editor of Big Data and Society

We are very happy to be able to announce that the journal has a new co-editor, Dr. Hannah Yee-Fen Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). Prof. Lim will expand our editorial expertise in the legal aspects of big data and related technologies. 

Prof. Hannah Yee-Fen Lim 
Division of Business Law, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 

Prof. Lim is an internationally recognised legal expert on all areas of technology law, including data privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Fintech, health technology, ethics and intellectual property. She has been appointed as a legal expert and has been advising international bodies such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations (UNCITRAL). She is currently one of 15 international legal experts appointed by UNIDROIT to research on and draft new International Model Laws to govern Cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other digital assets. She is the author of hundreds of papers and 6 scholarly books on law and technology published by internationally established publishers such as Oxford University Press. She graduated with double degrees in Computer Science and in Law from the University of Sydney, Australia where she went on to complete a Master of Laws by Research with Honours under a Telstra Scholarship. Hannah’s research has been cited with approval by senior judiciary, most notably by the High Court of Australia.