Dr Virginia Marshall is a Wiradjiri Nyemba woman and a Research Fellow at the Australian National University's School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). She is a practising lawyer and leading legal scholar with expertise in Aboriginal water rights, native title rights in Sea Country, Indigenous governance, and the intersection of Traditional Knowledge systems and western intellectual property regimes, especially in relation to traditional medicine R&D, and is Lead CI on the ARC Discovery research project - Barriers and pathways to development of Indigenous traditional medicines.
Dr Marshall is a member of ANU’s Ethics Committee, Chair of ANU’s Indigenous Research Advisory Group, a Research Associate and Board member of ANU’s Australian Studies Institute and is a member of the Māori Research and Ethics Council. Virginia holds various government appointments including serving on the Climate Change Authority Board, Deputy Co-Chair of DCCEEW’S Committee on Aboriginal Water Interests (CAWI) and on the Drafting Group for the National Water Initiative Mark 2. In 2024 Virginia was appointed as a member of the Great Artesian Basin Stakeholder Advisory Committee and the AEA Advisory Board.