Professor Marcus Haward is a political scientist specialising in oceans and Antarctic governance and marine resources management. He is currently Adjunct Professor in the Oceans and Cryosphere Centre, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, and Program Leader, Sustainable Offshore Development Program in the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre.

Marcus is also a member of the Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania. He is an Honorary Professor at the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland and an Associate, (Honorary) at the University of Waikato Law School New Zealand.