Dr Shirley Quo is a Perth academic, specialising in commercial, corporate, and competition law. She holds a Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws, and Doctor of Juridical Science from Monash University. For her doctorate she investigated the misuse of market power under the Competition and Consumer Act. Shirley has been a senior law lecturer since 2010, working at various universities including Monash and the University of Auckland. As a teaching and research scholar, Shirley is interested in St John’s adherence to the original idea of liberal education through the Great Books of Western Civilisation. With her St John’s College, Annapolis, Scholarship, Shirley will undertake the College’s renowned two-year Master of Arts in Liberal Arts degree and be mentored to secure and participate in an internship in an area of interest in Washington, D.C. In the future Shirley hopes to incorporate a more interdisciplinary approach to her academic writing and contribute to thought leadership through think tanks.