Sebastian Ko

Sebastian Ko is a multi-award winning attorney turned technology business leader. He is co-founder of DHB Global, specialising in biotech commercialisation and regtech.

Trained as a scientist and practised as an attorney, he holds various leadership roles in the lawtech community in Greater China. Ko is passionate about access to justice, how new technologies will impact working life and individual rights in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the evolution of the legal system and governance.

Ko founded the first Asia access to justice tech hackathon series and is founding chairman of the InnoTech Law Hub at the Law Society of Hong Kong.

Ko is also active in championing youths involved in advancing public interest issues. He sits on several civil society boards and committees advising on policy and legal matters. He regularly speaks and writes about technology and law, data protection and privacy, and equality law. In 2017-18, Ko was elected Curator of the Hong Kong Hub, Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum.

He also received the Bachelor of Civil Law (Oxford) and the Law Society Distinguished Service Award, and was recognized as an Inter-Pacific Bar Scholar. He is legally qualified in New York and Hong Kong.

Companies

• Managing Director DiscoveryLabs (2021)
• Co-Founder A.I. Vermont (2021)
• Lecturer / Course Co-Convenor The University of Hong Kong (2020)
• Managing Director, APAC FiscalNote (2020 — 2021)
• Legal Consultant Patricia Ho & Associates (2020 — 2020)
• Visiting Professor National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (2020 — 2020)
• Regional Director of Review Services and Senior Legal Counsel Epiq (2015 — 2019)
• Founder in Residence Entrepreneur First (2019 — 2019)
• Associate Debevoise & Plimpton (2013 — 2015)

Education

• Bachelor of Civil Law (Masters' Level Degree), Law University of Oxford
• Postgraduate Certificate in Laws The University of Hong Kong
• Bachelors of Science and Law (1st Class Hons) Monash University
• Master of Business Administration - MBA HKUST MBA (2020 — 2022)