Rob Nicholls joined the UNSW Business School in September 2015 and is also a research fellow at the Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation at UNSW Law. He has had a 30-year career concentrating on competition, regulation and governance, particularly in networked industries. Before his current appointment, Rob was a research fellow at the Centre for International Finance and Regulation where he investigated the intersection of competition law and financial services regulation and at Swinburne University of Technology where he researched spectrum management policy. He is also a visiting fellow at UTS Sydney Law.