Katryna Dow | Committee Member
Japan-Australia Cross-Border Interoperability Working Group

Katryna Dow is the CEO and founder of Meeco, the DNP Partner Manager and a founding member of the Cross Border Working Group (CBWG). The CBWG is focussed on the technical, legal and commercial interoperability of decentralized identity services. The CBWG is supporting the collaboration between Japan and Australasia using international standards such as Verifiable Credentials, mDOC and mDL, which are also aligned to the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI) specification. Katryna has been pioneering personal data rights since 2002, when she envisioned a time when personal sovereignty, identity and contextual privacy would be as important as being connected. Now within the context of GDPR, Open Banking, distributed ledger, cloud, AI and IoT converging, the capabilities provided by Meeco are necessary to build trust across digital transactions. She is the co-author of the blockchain identity paper ‘Immutable Me’ and co-author/co-architect of Meeco’s technical White Paper on Zero Knowledge Proofs for Access, Control, Delegation and Consent of Identity and Personal Data.Katryna is also currently serving as a business expert to the European Data Spaces Support Centre. Previously, she was consecutively named one of the Top 100 Identity Influencers and speaks globally on digital rights, privacy & data innovation. Between 2020-2022 she served as a Director for the MyData Global Board with a strategic focus is on jurisdictional approaches to personal data rights and business models. In late 2020 Katryna joined Data Sovereignty Now, as Meeco’s representative to advocate for standards and soft infrastructure to enable a more equitable European digital economy. She was a founding member of The Council of Extended Intelligence (CXI), a joint initiative between the IEEE Standards Association and MIT Media Lab. Has served on two IEEE standards working groups; Co-Chair for the Personal Data and Privacy Committee, part of the Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems, and Chair to scope a standard for a Personal Data Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent. Katryna has held leadership positions and delivered projects in Australia, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, United States and India. Her industry sector experience includes information technology, financial services, health services and human resources. Katryna currently splits her time between  Australia, Japan, Belgium, and the UK.
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/katrynadow