[WEBCAST] Executive Briefing | Cyber Security with Dr Tobias Feakin, Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology

Prior to joining the executive team, she led a successful practice specialising in M&A (public and private M&A, schemes of arrangement, reconstructions and joint ventures) and capital markets (IPOs, secondary capital raisings and hybrid and retail debt securities offerings). Evie has extensive experience advising large companies and emerging enterprises across a range of sectors, including financial services, private equity and infrastructure.

Evie was ranked by Chambers, in its list of 40 Outstanding Young Partners in the Asia Pacific for 2014 and is also ranked in various other legal industry publications including Best Lawyers in Australia, Who's Who Legal and The International Who’s Who of Capital Markets Lawyers.

Evie is on the board of Asia Society Australia, has written columns on trends in M&A for the Australian Financial Review and has been a Visiting Lecturer at Monash University teaching a course in equity capital markets law.  Evie is also a relationship partner for a number of King & Wood Mallesons’ key clients and a member of the Corporations Committee of the Law Council of Australia and Chief Executive Women.

Ambassador Feakin was a member of the Independent Panel of Experts that supported the Australian Cyber Security Review to produce Australia's 2016 Cyber Security Strategy. He was the Director of National Security Programs at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute from 2012 to 2016 and established the Institute's International Cyber Policy Centre.

He has also held a number of research and advisory positions, including with the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, the Oxford University Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, the Global Commission on Internet Governance and the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.

Ambassador Feakin holds an Honours Degree in Security Studies and a Doctorate of Philosophy in International Politics and Security Studies, both from the University of Bradford.

As KJR moved from strength to strength over the last two decades, Kelvin has also continued to pursue projects, initiatives and businesses that challenge, inspire and make an impact on the world around us.

In 2020 alone, not only did Kelvin step back into a hands-on roll within KJR, he was deeply involved in the launch of both Queensland AI Hub - connecting Queensland's AI ecosystem, and Datarwe - real World Data for AI enabled medical innovation, acting as Director and CTO respectively. And in recent years, Kelvin has helped to set-up IntelliHQ, a non-profit developing the ecosystem for AI innovation in healthcare where he remains a Director, and co-founded the Young Women Leaders in AI program, which encourages and facilitates the development of Australia’s next generation of brilliant female minds. Kelvin is also a Director at AiKademi (The AI Academy) and an Adjunct Associate Professor for the Institute for Integrated Intelligence Systems at Griffith University.