Libby Lloyd AM
Libby is the Chair of the Australian Government’s Violence Against Women Advisory Group, a member of the Government’s Council for Immigration Services and Status Resolution, on the Board of the White Ribbon Foundation, and is Patron of the Indigo Foundation.
In May 2008 Libby was appointed Chair of the former National Council to Reduce Violence Against Women and in April 2009 presented to the Prime Minister Time for Action: The National Council’s Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children.
Libby is a former president of National Committee of UNIFEM in Australia and has worked extensively in the community sector. She has worked intermittently in the Commonwealth Public Service and with the United Nations. Her first UN assignment was with the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) in Indonesia, working with Indo-Chinese boat people (1979-82). The second, again for UNHCR, was in Iraq (1989-90) working with Iranian refugees, with displaced workers from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and with the Australian and other foreign hostages in Iraq.
Libby runs a management consultancy, working mainly in the area of cross-cultural awareness, program and service review and is involved in a range of community support activities. She has three adult children and her husband is a former Australian diplomat. They were posted to London, Egypt, Vienna, Warsaw and East Berlin, Jakarta and Baghdad.
In 1992 Libby was made a Member of the Order of Australia for her contribution to refugees and to the international community in Iraq and Kuwait.