Rachel Walmsley

Rachel Walmsley is the Policy Officer at the Environmental Defender's Office, and works mainly on legislative law reform. Rachel holds a Bachelor of Laws with Honours in international environmental law, and a Bachelor of Arts from ANU.

Previously Rachel was the Environment Liaison Officer (ELO) for the peak environment groups of New South Wales (NSW). This involved lobbying at the NSW parliament on a wide range of new legislation on topics including: national parks, waste, gene technology, game hunting, and fisheries. Prior to that, Rachel was a Research Assistant at the Australian Centre for Environmental Law (ACEL) at ANU in Canberra. Rachel has also worked for a British conservation organisation in London and Tanzania, doing biodiversity survey work and local environmental group capacity building.