Ali McCook is a lawyer from Townsville, Queensland. She holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the Australian National University, for which she was awarded First Class Honours and the University Medal. She has published work on environmental regulation and deep-sea protection in several academic journals, including the Melbourne Journal of International Law and the Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law. After graduating, Ali completed an associateship with Justice Belinda Baker at the ACT Supreme Court. Ali seeks to use law and economics to protect our ecological resources and currently works as a regulatory lawyer at the Australian Government Solicitor with a focus on environmental and energy market litigation. With her Ramsay Postgraduate Scholarship, she will study a Master of Science in Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford. Following her degree, Ali hopes to create international legal and financial frameworks that encourage sustainable resource use.