Prof 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 chief investigator on the ANU Humanising Machine Intelligence Grand Challenge project and a board member of the AgriFood Innovation Institute. Before commencing as RegNet’s Director, she held a Canada Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, where she was also a Fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

Her research is concerned with how science and technology are contributing to changes in the governance of health, public safety, and well-being. Her publications span diverse areas, including automated decision-making, biomedicalisation, data governance, gender-based regulation, human enhancement, policing technologies, and sport. Her work has been funded by the Australian Research Council, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Olympic Studies Centre, Ontario Research Fund, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.