FORA.tv Speaker - Miriam Lyons

Miriam Lyons is the Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Development. Formerly the Policy Coordinator of New Matilda, Lyons has a long history of bringing policy ideas to new audiences, as the founding director of the Interface Festival of Ideas in Sydney, and director of the Ideas Program for the StraightOutof Brisbane Festival.

Lyons has also worked as a freelance writer and a media development consultant in East Timor with the international NGO, Internews. Lyons was a participant in the 2020 Summit and was recently nominated in the Thinkers category of The Australian's Emerging Leaders series.