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Sebastian Ko

Research Fellow at DEC Institute

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About me

Sebastian Ko, Managing Director, A.I. Vermont and DiscoveryLabs ****

Partner of a technology advisory firm, where he focuses on investment and regulatory compliance consulting on DeFi protocols, blockchain gaming, and VC funds.

Part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong (co-convenor of the legal innovation course "Innovation, Creativity & Ethics").

Formerly, regional director and senior legal counsel at Epiq; managing director of FiscalNote; and associate at Linklaters and Debevoise & Plimpton, where he advised on fintech regulation and technology law.

Co-author of The RegTech Book and The LegalTech Book (Wiley).

At the Law Society of Hong Kong, he is a Risk Management Education trainer (compulsory program for lawyers); an InnoTech Committee member; and was the founding chair of its InnoTech Hub.

Holds the BSc LLB (Monash) BCL (Oxford) and MBA (HKUST) degrees. Qualified as a Hong Kong solicitor; New York and U.S. Supreme Court attorney. Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia.