Brydon Timothy Wang
PhD (Law), LLM (Juris Doctor), MPPM, BArch (Hons)
Admitted onto the NSW Supreme Court Roll of Solicitors, 2014
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Dr Brydon Wang is an author, lawyer, and scholar researching the trustworthy regulation of technology. His work focuses on how we design and govern benevolent data structures and decision-making systems that support human-centric, climate-resilient cities. Dually qualified in law and architecture, Brydon brings more than twenty years of experience across construction, legal practice, and academia. He is currently an Associate Director at KPMG, advising on major infrastructure transactions, and an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland.
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Brydon’s research investigates how regulation can increase the perceived trustworthiness of decision-makers, particularly in contexts of automated systems and informational asymmetry. His interdisciplinary methods blend doctrinal legal analysis with creative research strategies. He was lead editor of Automating Cities: Design, Construction, Operation and Future Impact (Springer, 2021) and co-editor of Large Floating Structures, a volume exploring sustainable marine infrastructure and governance. His work has been featured by the Centre for Digital Built Britain, The Conversation, ABC Radio National’s Future Tense, and Seeker’s How Close Are We to Living in the Ocean?
Before joining KPMG, Brydon taught contract law, data privacy, and AI regulation at the Queensland University of Technology, where he received the 2024 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Teaching. He also taught Responsible Data Science in UQ’s Master of Data Science programme. His PhD thesis, The Role of Trustworthiness in Automated Decision-making Systems and the Law, was awarded the 2022 Faculty of Business and Law Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award.
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Brydon began his career in architecture and contract administration on award-winning construction projects, before practising as a technology and construction lawyer at Allens Linklaters. He remains passionate about integrating policy, law, and infrastructure to ensure technological systems are designed with trust and transparency at their core.
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A committed advocate for diversity and inclusion, Brydon has nearly a decade of experience on not-for-profit boards. He led the launch of the Queensland Chapter of the Asian Australian Lawyers Association and helped shape Allens’ top-ranked submissions to the Australian Workplace Equality Index. In addition to his legal and academic work, Brydon is also an award-winning portraiture artist, whose creative practice explores identity, climate and data vulnerability, and digital urban life.