Lizzie Murray

Founder/Director

With a life spent living, travelling, and working around the world from childhood, communication became Lizzie’s greatest passion. She learned that relatable and creative ways to share knowledge from all involved can lead to meaningful collaboration.

Lizzie co-founded A Liquid Future with local communities in Indonesia in 2012. What began through a shared passion for surfing grew into programmes combining education, community development and opportunities connected to the growing surf tourism economy.

Today, Lizzie leads A Liquid Future and Surfer Scientists, bringing together coastal communities, surfing, science and technology to better understand coastal change and help protect the places people depend on. Her work builds partnerships between communities, researchers, governments and the wider ocean sector.

Lizzie has an Honours degree in Political Science from University College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is proficient in five languages and has travelled to over one hundred countries.

A Liquid Future’s Origin

A Liquid Future began in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia, where villagers asked Lizzie to help them gain the skills they wanted to participate in the growing surf tourism economy around them.

Lizzie moved to the village of Katiet and worked alongside the community to develop programmes combining surfing, education and local priorities. What began there grew into A Liquid Future and, later, Surfer Scientists, extending the same principle into coastal science: start with people, understand what matters locally, and build from there.