Anna Naupa is a ni-Vanuatu PhD Candidate at ANU-CHL. She has worked across the culture, history and diplomatic fields, both internationally and locally with her paternal island community of Erromango in southern Vanuatu. Anna led the drafting of the Vanuatu Expert Report on Cultural Loss and Climate Change which supported Vanuatu's successful submission to the International Court of Justice. She has also recently worked on culture in displacement for a large International Organisation for Migration project, including drafting research papers and policy tools. Anna’s PhD research focuses on understanding how indigenous cultural systems and structures facilitate peaceful inter-community and trans-boundary relationships, and mediate conflict, at a range of scales from community to island, and nation to neighbour, in Vanuatu. Anna holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University (2014) and an MA in Geography from the University of Hawai’i, Manoa (2004). Her MA thesis on plural land tenure systems in Vanuatu contributed to national land law reforms, enhancing safeguards for customary governance systems.