Dr Sally Box

Division Head, International Climate Negotiations, Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Dr Sally Box is the Head of the International Climate Negotiations Division in the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Sally is also Australia’s Head of Delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Prior to this role, Sally served as the Australian Government’s Threatened Species Commissioner, where she led the development and implementation of the Threatened Species Strategy and the environmental response to the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires.

Sally has over 18 years’ experience working in the Australian Public Service in the fields of climate change and environment policy development, program delivery, regulation, and communications. She has a PhD in Plant Sciences from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of Adelaide.