Daiva Juknelienė finished her Engineering of Land Management degree at the Lithuanian University of Agriculture in 1994 and completed her master's studies in Finance, Accounting, Management, and Business Administration in 2005. Daiva Juknelienė defended her doctoral dissertation, “Land Use Development in Lithuania: Retrospection and Perspective” in 2020. From 1994–2004, Daiva Juknelienė worked as chief officer at the Kaunas District Land Management Division. From 2004–2012, Daiva Juknelienė worked as the vice-dean at the Kaunas Forestry and Environmental Engineering College. Since 1998, she has been working at the Aleksandras Stulginskis University (since 2019, Vytautas Magnus University) as a lecturer and member of the Association of Lithuanian Land Management and Hydraulic Engineers. Daiva Juknelienė’s research interests include environmental engineering, land use planning, land law, and land administration.