Marit Myrvoll is a social anthropologist (PhD) and former researcher and museum manager. As such, the cultural heritage field is at the centre of her interests, and she has been working in national and regional cultural heritage management. Her research experience includes working with Tibetans in exile, the Maronite minority in Cyprus, the Sámi people in Norway, Sweden and Finland, as well as the Norwegian majority population. Myrvoll has for many years worked with the High North, focusing on Nordic and Sámi conditions, world heritage in the Arctic, climate and other change processes with an impact on people, society and heritage, as well as management systems and challenges relating to indigenous peoples and national and international cultural heritage - from local intangible heritage to UNESCO World Heritage Sites. As a member of the Norwegian UNESCO Commission, she was engaged in the work of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003), and she was appointed an international expert at UNESCO's International World Heritage Expert Meeting regarding Criterion (vi) and has been an ICOMOS expert on several new nominations for the UNESCO World Heritage List (2012, 2016, 2017). Myrvoll has been av member of the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2018 - 2023).
Her key competence includes perspectives on culture, identity and society, as well as the management of cultural heritage, cultural history, religious faith, project management and dissemination. She has participated in national and international projects focusing on identity, cultural heritage and cultural heritage management and has a comprehensive network.