Ema Maria Bargh is a New Zealand academic, and is Professor of Politics and Māori Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.

[1] Bargh completed a PhD titled Re-colonisation and indigenous resistance: neoliberalism in the Pacific at the Australian National University, under the supervision of Barry Hindess.

[2] Bargh joined the staff of Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor in 2022.

[3] She was on the Matike Mai Aotearoa working group on constitutional reform.

[4] Bargh has been appointed by Cabinet to the role of Deputy Chair of the Independent Review of Electoral Law, alongside Deborah Hart, Andrew Geddis, Alice Mander, Robert Pedden and Lara Greaves.