ANCORS Visiting Fellow

Marta Lang
Professorial Fellow

Marta is an ANCORS Fellow, with research interests in fisheries management, marine conservation, coastal management and community-led conservation and development.

An Oxford Master of Science graduate and New Zealand lawyer, Marta directs a consultancy practice working across the Asia-Pacific. She is currently leading Commonwealth Fisheries Programme work in the Pacific Islands and South Asia. She is passionate about facilitating conservation and development systems that place sustainable natural resource use, species protection, community cohesion and cultural relationships with nature at their heart.

Recent academic research includes papers on marine protected areas as a strategy for sustainability in fisheries management, and how historical information on Cornish marine predator populations might be used in contemporary marine planning.

In New Zealand, Marta practised law as an Assistant Crown Counsel, Crown Law Office and at the Department of Conservation. Part of New Zealand delegations to the United Nations High Seas Working Group on Marine Biodiversity and United Nations Informal Consultative Processes on the Law of the Sea in 2005 and 2006, she holds a BSc (Environmental Studies) and a first class Honours degree in Law (Victoria University of Wellington), and an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management with distinction (University of Oxford). Marta is also a Research Associate of the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit, School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

To contact Marta, email ournature@ymail.com or martal@uow.edu.au.