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Dr Miriam Goldby is Professor of Shipping, Insurance and Commercial Law and Director of Research at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. She is a member of British Insurance Law Association (BILA) Committee and editor of the BILA journal. She is also a member of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) Standing Committee on Carriage of Goods, and vice-chair of the International Chamber of Commerce UK (ICC UK) Commercial Law and Practice Committee. She is the author of Electronic Documents in Maritime Trade: Law and Practice (OUP), the second edition of which was published in 2019, and has published extensively in the fields of shipping, insurance and financial law. She undertook a part-time secondment to the Law Commission of England and Wales to work on the Electronic Trade Documents project (Phase 1 of the Commission’s Digital Assets Project) between November 2020 and March 2022. She has received research funding from the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Lloyd’s of London and has contributed to research undertaken by the Bank of England on InsurTech and by the Law Commission on Anti-Money Laundering. She is a member of the Centre for Maritime Law at the National University of Singapore and joined the centre as a visiting senior research fellow in 2019. She will be visiting the centre again as a visiting professor in January 2023.