Dr Pamela Hanrahan is a lawyer, legal academic and author who specialises in corporate law, corporate governance, superannuation and financial services regulation, and the legal dimensions of sustainability (ESG).

She is Emeritus Professor of Commercial Law and Regulation at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Business School, a Senior Fellow of the Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law at the University of Melbourne, and founding director of the Cybersecurity and Data Governance Research Network at UNSW Sydney.  She is also a member of the Society of Investment Law (USA), a Fellow of FINSIA, and a solicitor member of the Law Society of New South Wales.

Pamela is Chair of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, a member of the Corporate Governance National Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a member of the Conexus Institute Advisory Board, and Chair of Landcom Corporation.  She is a Consultant with Australian law firm Johnson Winter Slattery. In 2010-11 Pamela was the Queensland Regional Commissioner of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and in 2013-15 served as the Registrar of Community Housing for New South Wales.  In 2016-17 Pamela was an appointed member of the ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce and in 2018 she was an adviser to the Hayne Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry.