Stacey Steele is an academic and practicing lawyer specializing in financial services, privacy and data protection. She holds the position of Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, and serves as Honorary Associate Director (Japan) for the Asian Law Centre. Steele joined the University of Melbourne's Asian Law Centre in 1997 as a research associate and was promoted to Associate Director (Japan) in January 2002. From 2004 to 2017, she taught corporate and insolvency law at Melbourne Law School and developed annual training programs for Japanese and Korean legal practitioners. In addition to her academic roles, she is currently Deputy Chief Privacy Officer and Associate General Counsel at S&P Global Ratings.

Her scholarly work centers on comparative law in Asia, with a particular emphasis on insolvency law, legal education, privacy law, and regulatory challenges in financial technologies. Steele has edited two significant volumes: Legal Education in Asia: Globalization, Change and Contexts (Routledge, 2010, co-edited with Kathryn Taylor), which examines reforms in legal training across Asian jurisdictions, and Match-Fixing in Sport: Comparative Studies from Australia, Japan, Korea and Beyond (Routledge, 2018, co-edited with Hayden Opie), addressing integrity issues in sports through legal perspectives. Prominent peer-reviewed articles include "Privacy and emergency payments in a pandemic: How to think about privacy and a central bank digital currency" (2021, co-authored with E. Rennie), "Trends and developments in Chinese insolvency law: the first decade of the PRC Enterprise Bankruptcy Law" (2018, co-authored with A. Godwin et al.), "Insolvent Trading in Australia: A Study of Court Judgments from 2004 to 2017" (2019, with I. Ramsay), "Evaluating the new Japanese civil rehabilitation law" (2000), "The new law on bankruptcy in Indonesia: Towards a modern corporate bankruptcy regime?" (1999), and "Japanese legal education reform: A lost opportunity to end the cult(ure) of the national bar examination and internationalise curricula?" (2014, with A. Petridis). Her publications reflect her deep engagement with legal developments in Japan, Indonesia, China, and Australia, contributing to international discourse on insolvency practices and privacy protections.

Professional Email: s.steele@unimelb.edu.au