Suelette Dreyfus

Dr Suelette Dreyfus researches and teaches cyber security and digital privacy in the University of Melbourne’s School of Computing and Information Systems. She did her bachelor’s degree at Columbia University in New York and her Ph.D. at Monash University.

She is a frequent public commentator in the media on IT-related topics and wrote the first mainstream book about computer hacking in Australia, subsequently translated into seven languages and made into two films. Rolling Stone Magazine described the work as ‘entirely original', and the book has become a cult classic. Australian Bookseller and Publisher called it ‘a meticulously researched psychological and social profile of hackers.’

For her research work on the impact of digital technologies on whistleblowing, she has been invited to appear before parliamentary committees at the state and federal levels in Australia and internationally. She has co-authored a number of international reports, book chapters and papers in this area.

Prior to earning her PhD and entering academia, she trained and worked as a staff journalist on a major daily newspaper in Australia.