Professor Marcus Haward is a political scientist at the University of Tasmania who specialises in oceans and Antarctic governance and marine resources management at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania. Marcus’s research has helped to manage the national and regional marine estate for both resource use and environmental conservation and has covered a range of activities from coastal management and deep-sea fishing resources to international arrangements and treaties. He is currently a Program Leader in the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre (BE-CRC) and a member of the Centre for Marine Socioecology at the University of Tasmania. Marcus is also an Honorary Professor at the Institute for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland and is an Associate at the University of Waikato Law School, New Zealand.
He has over 240 research publications and over 55 higher degree by research candidature completions.
He is currently working on Antarctic geopolitics, integrated oceans management, offshore aquaculture governance and the development of offshore wind energy.
Professor Haward contributed to the United Nations Environment Program Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) report in 2018, and Review of Outlook Reporting in 2020. He was an expert reviewer for the IPCC oceans report in 2018. Professor Haward was a Contributor and Reviewer to the Australian Government’s State of The Environment Report 2021.
Professor Haward is currently editor of the Australian Journal of Maritime and Oceans Affairs published by Taylor & Francis.
