Fiona McKergow is a career civil servant with experience across the Australian Government and has worked in a range of foreign policy, trade, humanitarian, and development roles focused role in the Pacific and South Asia. Prior to joining DFAT, Ms McKergow worked closely with the diplomatic network, industry and other government agencies on climate change policy and programming, live export trade, market access and trade negotiations and biosecurity issues. She began her career as wildlife officer before moving into a variety of policy roles that included assessment of international world heritage sites, international child adoption policies, environment management in Australia’s external territories, international fisheries policy issues and offshore refugee processing arrangements.