I take pride in the work I have done, but it's important to me to recognise that much of it has been produced through collaboration with people I admire and with the benefit of their support.

Hamish Fraser

Global pioneer in 'rules as code' and co-author of the 2021 Legislation as Code report. Since 2023, Hamish and I have formalised our working relationship through Syncopate Lab, a software company and consultancy developing digital technologies for regulatory purposes. Our collaboration has produced pioneering work on AI-assisted regulatory drafting, including the NZ API Standard and consolidation of identification management documents using structured data and semantic search.

Ellen Strickland

Co-Director of Brainbox Institute (appointed 2024). Ellen joined as the organisation transitioned toward non-profit status, bringing complementary expertise to our work at the intersection of technology, law, and policy. Together we continue to deliver advisory services to governments, international institutions, and civil society on AI governance, platform regulation, and Internet Governance.

Warren Forster

Barrister and founder of the research team that shaped my early career in legal research and access to justice. Beginning in 2011 while I was still in university, Warren mentored me through extensive research on New Zealand's medico-legal and accident compensation systems. Our collaborative work produced four law foundation-funded reports, a UN shadow report on disability rights, a report designing an enforceability right to accessibility for disabled people in New Zealand, and peer-reviewed articles that influenced ministerial policy decisions and parliamentary debates on ACC reform. Warren's guidance was foundational to my approach to system design and human rights-centered policy work.

Curtis Barnes

Co-founder at Brainbox Institute, and co-author of "Deepfakes and Synthetic Media" (Routledge, 2020) and the New Zealand Law Foundation funded reports on legislation as code, deepfakes and synthetic media, and judicial decisions as data. Curtis was the lead author on a chapter in Emerging Technologies and International Security. Among other things, Curtis brought profound analytical and authorship skills to our analysis of synthetic media capabilities and legal frameworks for response, contributing to what became foundational work in New Zealand on deepfakes and AI-generated content.

Tiho Mijatov

Co-author on multiple peer-reviewed articles and law foundation reports examining access to justice in New Zealand's accident compensation system. Our collaborative work included empirical analysis of 500+ ACC appeals and was shortlisted for Best Published Article in 2017. Tiho's contributions were essential to the rigorous socio-legal research that identified systemic barriers to justice and influenced policy reform. Tiho is a prominent Barrister in Wellington.