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.

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.