Maggie Walter (PhD; FASSA) is Palawa and Distinguished Professor of Sociology (Emerita) at the University of Tasmania. She is the author of seven books and over 100 journal articles and research chapters in the fields of Indigenous sociology, Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Indigenous methodology and she brings her expertise across these fields to the topic of open science and scholarship. Recent publications include Indigenous Sociology (Oxford 2023, lead editor with T. Kukutai, R. Henry & A. Gonzales) and Indigenous Quantitative Methodologies: from data deficit to data sovereignty (Routledge 2025 with C. Andersen, T. Kukutai and C. Gable). Maggie is a founding member of the Australian Indigenous Data Sovereignty Collective (Maiam nayri Wingara) and an executive member of the Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA). From 2021 to 2025 Maggie was a Commissioner on the Yoorook Justice Commission, Australia’s first truth telling Commission, inquiring into injustices against First Peoples in Victoria since colonisation.