Meet the team
Whaiao is made up of six working groups, each with co-chairs. All co-chairs are community leaders in their respective fields.
Tourism
Dr. Anna Carr
Co-chair
Dr. Anna Carr is an Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand and the founding Co-Director of the Centre for Recreation Research.
She has been an owner/operator of two adventure tourism businesses prior to joining academia.
Since the mid-1990s she has been actively involved in national parks, Indigenous peoples and ecotourism research.
She recently completed a five year term on the Otago Conservation Board. Her SDG research and teaching interests focus on the interdisciplinary aspects of sustainable wilderness management and Indigenous cultural landscapes.