Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Law
Degree type
Higher Degree Research
Research project topic
Promoting a Sustainable and Inclusive Economy
Research project
A Financial System that Promotes a Sustainable and Inclusive Economy: Turning Ideas into Reality
Scholars from a range of fields studying financial systems suggest that they should be more sustainable and have a more positive socioeconomic impact, that financial sectors should be more professional and that a transformation of socio-political relationships are required to change the financial system. However, there is a large theoretical gap between this utopian vision and day-to-day operational realities of financial systems. This thesis identifies key issues that advocates, governments and financial sectors will have to collectively resolve in order to start closing this gap.
With extensive professional experience in finance tax and regulation, and fiscal policy, Lee‑Anne Sim is a current PhD candidate.
She researches and publishes work on the implications of academic, commercial, bureaucratic and democratic institutions on the relationship between financial systems, their regulatory frameworks and the environmental and socioeconomic challenges of the modern global economy.
Her current interests focus on how these institutions shape choices and the implications this has for how problems in financial sectors and financial systems are identified and solved via statutory interventions.
Admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria, she graduated with an LLB(first class honours)/BSc from Monash University, and has received postgraduate qualifications in economics from the Australian National University. Her scholarship has been published in International Affairs, the top journal in its field.
Appointments
- Admitted as a lawyer to the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Significant research publications
- Lee-Anne Sim, ‘Influencing the Social Impact of Financial Systems: Alternative Strategies’, International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 2, March 2020, available at https://academic-oup-com.virtual.anu.edu.au/ia/article/96/2/501/5707331.
- Lee-Anne Sim, ‘Necessary evil: how to fix finance by saving human rights’, International Affairs, Volume 95, Issue 2, March 2019, pages 476-477, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz006, (quoted in the journal’s top 10 summer reading list).
