Dr Lisa Robins is an Honorary Associate Professor at the ANU’s Fenner School for Environment and Society, where she has been an affiliate since 2009. She has 30 years’ experience working in natural resource management (NRM) as a researcher, science communicator, facilitator and program manager. Lisa has worked in the Indo–Pacific region (especially the Mekong region and Indonesia), Canada and the United Kingdom, in addition to an extensive record of engagement and publishing in Australia. She holds a PhD on NRM governance and capacity building from the ANU (2009), and a Master of Science in Environmental Change and Management with Distinction from Oxford University (1995).