Anita Dey Nuttall

Anita Dey Nuttall is a Polar Science and Policy Engagement Officer and is on the faculty of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta. Anita is a past chair and current member of the Canadian Committee for Antarctic Research. She previously served as Associate Director of the Canadian Circumpolar Institute and UAlberta North and was a visiting researcher at Finland’s Thule Institute. Anita studied History at Delhi University and International Relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University and holds a PhD in polar ecology and management from the University of Cambridge. She teaches resource management and environmental policy and has interests in science policy issues, the history and contemporary nature of national Antarctic programs, geopolitics, and sovereignty in the circumpolar regions.