Michelle Lyons
Climate change policy, climate finance, climate change implementation and evaluation
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Michelle Lyons is a Research Fellow (part-time) in the Lowy Institute’s Indo-Pacific Development Centre where she works on international climate change policy and climate finance. She has more than a decade of experience working in the Australian Public Service and at the Australian National University on international and domestic climate change policy development, implementation and evaluation. Michelle is a member of the ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions.
She is currently completing her PhD at ANU on the roles of public investment in the transition to net zero emissions. Michelle is a recipient of the prestigious Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship.
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