Ms Lyndall Sachs
Ambassador to Lebanon
Biography
Ms Sachs is a senior staff member of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and is currently Assistant Secretary, Parliamentary and Media Branch and departmental Senior Spokesperson, a position she has 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.