Victoria is a Professor of Archival Science at the University of British Columbia’s School of Information where she is founder and lead of Blockchain@UBC, the University of British Columbia’s multidisciplinary blockchain research cluster now ranked #1 in Canada for blockchain education. Victoria also currently sits on the International Standards Organization’s Technical Committee 307 (blockchains and distribution ledgers). She holds a doctorate from University College London (Archival Studies, 2002) and, since 2005, has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). In 2020, she received a Blockchain Ecosystem Leadership Award and was named one of Canada’s Top 20 women in IT Security. She is the author and editor of award-winning articles and books, including  Building Decentralized Trust – Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Design of Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers (Springer, 2020) and Searching for Trust: Blockchain Technology in an Age of Disinformation (Cambridge University Press, 2022).