Daniela Liggett is an Associate Professor at the University of Canterbury.  She is a social scientist with a background in environmental management, Antarctic politics and tourism research.  Her interests include the governance of human activity in polar environments and the complexities of human activities in the region and interactions within Antarctic socio-ecological systems generally.

She is currently involved on the topics of Antarctic tourism, the use and provision of polar environmental forecasts, and Antarctic science-policy interactions.  She is one of the two Chief Officers of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), Ant-ICON (Integrated Science to inform Antarctic and Southern Ocean Conservation) and has been a co-Chair of the Societal and Economic Research and Applications task team of the World Meteorological Organisation’s Polar Prediction Project. 

Daniela is on the editorial boards of: Polar Geography, The Polar Journal, Antarctic Science, and Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism.