Dita Liliansa is a Research Associate at the Ocean Law and Policy Programme, Centre for International Law (CIL), National University of Singapore. She obtained her first law degree from the University of Indonesia in 2014, and her LLM in Sustainable International Development Law from the University of Washington in 2017 as a Fulbright scholar. She is a Second-Prize Winner of the 2021 Asian Society of International Law Junior Scholar Award. Dita attended the IFLOS Summer Academy at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in 2018 where she was awarded the prize for the best oral argumentation in the moot court competition. In addition to research, she is active in teaching university students and training government officials as well as participates in Asean, the International Maritime Organisation and Arctic Council meetings as an observer.