Associate Professor of Ecological Economics at Charles Darwin University, Australia, comes from a local, small-scale farming background and with more than 20 years of experience working with Indigenous Peoples in Australia, India, and Tanzania. Specialized in linking ecosystem services with Indigenous wellbeing and in evaluating non-monetary ecosystem services, her work informs the Science-Policy interface. She has participated in several UN-led initiatives, such as IPBES Nexus Assessment, and UNEP-GEO7 Report and is a member of its Indigenous Knowledge Taskforce, and a Co-Chair of IUCN-CEESP led Local Economies Communities Nature Specialist Group.