Caroline is the Global Vice President of Public Policy at Chainalysis where she has built and leads the policy function, working with agencies across government as well as in the private sector. She has developed the policy strategy to achieve business objectives in a fast moving tech sector with significant political attention, across issues touching on regulation, cybersecurity, illicit finance, privacy and online harms. She has also developed a boutique advisory practice to deepen relationships and identify future use cases of the technology and data as well as a boutique advisory practice working predominantly with a work with clients from the public and private sectors to understand developments in digital asset markets and their intersect with global regulatory trends and requirements. She is also a Steering Group member for the Ransomware Taskforce of the Institute for Security and Technology.
Caroline was previously the founding Head of the OECD's Global Blockchain Policy Centre, from 2018 to 2021, working on a diverse range of blockchain-related policy issues, such as fintech, competition policy, data governance, and supply chain transparency. In 2019, she co-led the Financial Stability Board’s workstream on decentralised fintech, and also established the OECD’s Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board, bringing together more than 100 experts from across the world in government, industry, academia and civil society. In 2020, Caroline was named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, and was a judge in the G20 techsprint hackathon. In 2022, she was a finalist in the Global Australian Awards.
Caroline's career began as a lawyer to the Australian government before she joined the OECD in 2010, to work on international tax transparency issues. She went on to set up the OECD-UNDP Tax Inspectors Without Borders initiative and then became the advisor to the OECD’s Head of Tax working on the G7 and G20 tax agendas, including the OECD/G20 BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) Project. During this time, Caroline became more interested in the impact of emerging technologies on policy frameworks, leading a report to the G20 in 2018 on this issue, and also began the first global study of the tax treatment of digital assets.