Dr John Selby is an active member of the Optus-Macquarie Cybersecurity Hub. An interdisciplinary academic whose research applies New Institutional Economics theory to study the spillover effects of the Internet on business, including cybersecurity risks, domain name regulation, competition, onilne dispute resolution, privacy, artificial intelligence, and digital trade, He supervises PhD candidates on a range of Internet-related or technology-related topics, with the ability to support students undertaking empirical and/or doctrinal dissertations.

His research has been widely published, including in Oxford University's International Journal of Law and Information Technology, and cited more than one-hundred times, including in the Yale Law Journal. Dr Selby is also active in public policy debates, having influenced decisions by government and industry regulators on a range of Internet-related issues. Amongst his many media appearances, he has been quoted on the front-page of the Sydney Morning Herald, in the Australian Financial Review, and has been interviewed on national television news and current affairs programs broadcast on Channel 7, Channel 9 and Channel 10, and on ABC Radio.

Dr Selby has significant experience teaching a range of undergraduate and postgraduate cybersecurity and law subjects, from introduction to the legal system, through contracts, torts, corporations law, tax law, alternative dispute resolution, civil procedure, trade law, mooting, IP law and Internet law. His mooting students have ranked 5th in the world in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Law Moot Competition. In pedagogy, Dr Selby has introduced innovative assessment techniques and developed a novel assessment feedback software tool which automatically generates and delivers personalised diagnostic assessment feedback reports to students.

In 2017, Dr Selby introduced the first cybersecurity unit offered to undergraduates in the Faculty of Business & Economics.

Dr Selby has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Zurich, the University of Oslo and the University of Southern California. In 2015, he was an Australia-India Youth Dialogue representative, in 2013 an ISOC-AU Ambassador to the United Nations Internet Governance Forum, and in 2006 a Lowy Institute "New Voice in Technology & International Relations. He previously practiced as a solicitor focusing on technology law at (what is now) King & Wood Mallesons.

Dr Selby currently convenes the following units:

- Cybersecurity & Privacy

- Cybersecurity: Governance and Ethics