Ms Lyndall Sachs
Ambassador to Lebanon
Biography
Ms Sachs is a senior staff member of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and prior to her appointment as Ambassador to Lebanon was Assistant Secretary, Parliamentary and Media Branch and departmental Senior Spokesperson, a position she held since 2004. Prior to this she was Director, Media Liaison Section (2001-04).
Before joining DFAT in 2001, Ms Sachs worked for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), London, as Public Advocacy Officer and Senior Media Spokesperson (1997-2001). She has also held the positions of Refugee Initiatives Manager, Marie Stopes International (1996-97), and UNHCR Senior Public Information Officer in London (1994-95), Goma (formerly Zaire) (1994) and Belgrade (1991-94). Ms Sachs also held a variety of positions in the then Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, (1988-91) and the then Public Service Board (1982-88).
Ms Sachs was born in Sydney in 1960. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) majoring in History and Japanese from the University of Queensland.