Emily Jateff

Emily Jateff leads the Australian National Maritime Museum's Ocean Futures pillar and associated ten-year program in support of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030. Her remit includes partnerships, collections and content for ocean sciences, marine technologies, climate change and sustainability. She is also a maritime archaeologist.

Emily Jateff first fell in love with archaeology while down a Hellenistic-era well in Crete, and realising that people did this underwater, learned to dive, and had a great time completing undergraduate and graduate degrees in anthropology/maritime archaeology. She has since managed laboratories, curated permanent, temporary and travelling exhibitions, taught students, written articles, helped make short films and conducted fieldwork on a variety of sites, including four dives to RMS Titanic in a Mir submersible and time spent searching for shipwrecks on board RV Investigator.

Emily loves sharing science with the public, including talks for VIVID Sydney, World Science Festival Brisbane and TedX Darlinghurst. She also currently serves as Chair, Inspiring NSW Executive Committee and Member, National Benefit Advisory Committee for the CSIRO Marine National Facility.