Dr. Victoria Lemieux – VIPSS24
Professor of Archival Science & Founder, Blockchain@UBC
Victoria is an experienced and multidimensional technology leader, innovator and academic. She currently holds a position as Professor of Archival Science at the University of British Columbia’s School of Information. She is also founder and co-lead of Blockchain@UBC, the University of British Columbia’s multidisciplinary blockchain research cluster, ranked #1 by Coindesk for blockchain education in Canada. She has previously held senior positions as a professional archivist and records manager within the public sector, as a VP responsible for information governance and IT Security for a global investment bank, in higher education as a senior administrator and educator, at the World Bank as a Senior Public Sector Specialist and consultant, and as the Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer for a health intelligence company. She has consulted for the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the Inter-American Development Bank and has collaborated on research projects with the US Treasury, Office of Financial Research. Her academic research focuses on risk to the availability of trustworthy records and how these risks impact upon transparency, financial stability, public accountability, and human rights. Victoria currently sits on the International Standards Organization’s Technical Committee 307 (blockchain and distribution ledgers). She holds a doctorate from University College London (Archival Studies, 2002) and, since 2005, has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). She is the winner of the 2015 Emmett Leahy Award for outstanding contributions to the field of records management, a 2015 World Bank Big Data Innovation Award and 2020 Blockchain Ecosystem Leadership Award. In 2020 she also was named one of Canada’s Top 20 women in IT Security. She is the author and editor of award-winning articles and books, including Financial Analysis and Risk Management: Data Governance, Analytics and Life Cycle Management (Springer, 2012); Building Trust in Information – Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provenance (Springer, 2016), Building Decentralized Trust – Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Design of Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers (Springer, 2020), and Searching for Trust: Blockchain Technology in an Age of Disinformation (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Victoria is an experienced and multidimensional technology leader, innovator and academic. She currently holds a position as Professor of Archival Science at the University of British Columbia’s School of Information. She is also founder and co-lead of Blockchain@UBC, the University of British Columbia’s multidisciplinary blockchain research cluster, ranked #1 by Coindesk for blockchain education in Canada. She has previously held senior positions as a professional archivist and records manager within the public sector, as a VP responsible for information governance and IT Security for a global investment bank, in higher education as a senior administrator and educator, at the World Bank as a Senior Public Sector Specialist and consultant, and as the Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer for a health intelligence company. She has consulted for the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the Inter-American Development Bank and has collaborated on research projects with the US Treasury, Office of Financial Research. Her academic research focuses on risk to the availability of trustworthy records and how these risks impact upon transparency, financial stability, public accountability, and human rights. Victoria currently sits on the International Standards Organization’s Technical Committee 307 (blockchain and distribution ledgers). She holds a doctorate from University College London (Archival Studies, 2002) and, since 2005, has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). She is the winner of the 2015 Emmett Leahy Award for outstanding contributions to the field of records management, a 2015 World Bank Big Data Innovation Award and 2020 Blockchain Ecosystem Leadership Award. In 2020 she also was named one of Canada’s Top 20 women in IT Security. She is the author and editor of award-winning articles and books, including Financial Analysis and Risk Management: Data Governance, Analytics and Life Cycle Management (Springer, 2012); Building Trust in Information – Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provenance (Springer, 2016), Building Decentralized Trust – Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Design of Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers (Springer, 2020), and Searching for Trust: Blockchain Technology in an Age of Disinformation (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
