Dr Evana Wright is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law University of Technology Sydney researching in the fields of intellectual property, the protection of Indigenous traditional knowledge, as well as the regulation of technologies such as IoT devices and AI.

Her PhD thesis examined the emerging international framework for the recognition and protection of Indigenous traditional knowledge and its implementation in India and Peru with the objective of identifying lessons for Australia in developing a nationally consistent regime for the protection of traditional knowledge. As a PhD scholar, she held the Quentin Bryce Law Doctoral Research Scholarship and Teaching Fellowship.

Prior to joining the Faculty as a Lecturer in 2018, Evana was a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law working on the ARC Linkage Project Garuwanga: Forming a Competent Authority to protect Indigenous knowledge.

Evana was admitted as a legal practitioner in the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 2006. She has worked in Australia and Silicon Valley for major IT corporations and in an ICT research and development incubator.