Laureate Professor Tiffany Morrison holds professorial appointments in the School of Geography, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at Melbourne University, the College of Science & Engineering at James Cook University and the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University. Her expertise is in the governance of environmental change, policy responses to warming ecosystems, and governance of new interventions in warming ecosystems. Professor Morrison has twenty years of experience conducting innovative interdisciplinary research spanning human geography, political science, climate science, and ecology. Her team’s research has explained both the causes and consequences of complex environmental governance and the ways in which better governance can benefit the environment, economy and society. Prof. Morrison is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia and was appointed to the Australian Government's Reef 2050 Expert Panel in 2022. She has provided governance expertise to the Scientific Advisory Committees for CGIAR-WorldFish, the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. Her findings on the governance of changing ecosystems have been published in Science, Nature, PNAS, and Nature Climate Change, and featured in BBC documentaries and global media outlets such The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Le Monde. Professor Morrison’s commitment to driving international policy influence includes 195 Overton policy citations by 23 national governments and intergovernmental bodies such as FAO, World Bank, UNDP, IPCC & IPBES. In recognition of her continuing leadership and impact, Professor Morrison was awarded the prestigious Australian Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council for 2025-2030. Her current Governing Changing Oceans Laureate team is focused on developing multiscale governance frameworks for emerging ocean-based climate interventions, such as chemically modified seawater and genetically modified marine organisms.