Margaret Byrne

Dr Margaret Byrne is the executive director of biodiversity and conservation science at the Department of Parks and Wildlife where she is responsible for the integration of science, policy and on-ground management for biodiversity conservation. Dr Byrne is recognised as a leading biological scientist in Australia with over 180 publications. She obtained a PhD from the University of Western Australia and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at CSIRO in Canberra before returning to Perth to develop and manage a conservation genetics program in the then Department of Conservation and Land Management, prior to taking on a greater science management role.