Dr Julia Jabour is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Policy at the University of Tasmania and Leader of the Oceans and Antarctic Governance Research Program at the 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 law-making processes, and translating that information into user-friendly knowledge for uptake by non-specialist audiences. Julia has visited Antarctica six times, and been an advisor to the Australian Government at Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings on three occasions.