Dr Julia Jabour is a member of the Ocean and Antarctic Governance Research Program at Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. She has been researching, writing, and lecturing on polar governance for 20 years. Most of her teaching and research is interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, involving examining current scientific and technical developments, determining their utility to the policy and lawmaking processes, and translating that information into user-friendly knowledge for uptake by non-specialist audiences. Julia has visited Antarctica six times, and been an adviser to the Australian Government at Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings on three occasions.