Professor Kathryn (Kate) Henne is the Director of RegNet, the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance, and leads the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech). She is also a board member of the ANU Agrifood Innovation Institute, an executive member of the ANU Integrated AI Networkand an honorary professor in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University. Before commencing as RegNet’s Director, she held a Canada Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, where she was a Fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs. 

Professor Henne’s research investigates how science and technology contribute to the governance of health, public safety and social welfare. Her publications cover diverse topics such as automated decision-making, biomedicine, data governance, digital public infrastructure, gender-based regulation, human enhancement, physical activity and surveillance. Her work has has received recognised in several fields, including prizes from the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,  American Society of Criminology and Canada Foundation for Innovation.

A passionate advocate for student-centred learning, Professor Henne is a fellow of Advance HE . An award-winning supervisor and teacher, she has spearheaded the creation of postgraduate, professional and research training programs that integrate learnings from regulatory governance and science and technology studies.