Dominic Verity is a professor of mathematics at Macquarie University in Sydney and is a director of the Centre of Australian Category Theory. While he is a leading proponent of 'Australian-style' higher category theory, he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and migrated to Australia in the early 1990s. Over the years he has pursued a career that has spanned the academic and non-academic worlds, working at times as a computer programmer, quantitative analyst, and investment banker. He has also served as the Chair of the Academic Senate of Macquarie University, the principal academic governance and policy body.