Senior Associate

The Allen Consulting Group

Former Portfolio Secretary, the Department of Environment and Heritage, Australia

Mr. Roger Beale AO is a Senior Associate with The Allen Consulting Group, a Director of the Connector Motorways Group, a Director of the Brisbane Airports Corporation, Chair of the ACT Electoral Commission, Chair of the Advisory Board of the National Institute of Governance and a member of the Australian Statistics Advisory Council. He was a lead author for the UN’s Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report.

Mr. Beale was born in Bombay, India, has a BA majoring in History and Law from the University of Queensland, studied economics at the ANU and completed a Master of Industrial and Labor Relations (Economics) at Cornell University. He was a Harkness Fellow from 1973 to 1975.

He worked in the Australian Public Service from 1967-2004, the positions including Director of Research of the Public Service Board, First Assistant Secretary in relevant federal departments, Director of task force on Public Service reform, Commissioner of the Public Service Board, Associate Secretary in the Department of Transport and Communications, Director of Australia Post and the Federal Airports Corporation, Associate Secretary in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Chair of the Council of Australian Governments microeconomic reform task force, Portfolio Secretary of the Department of Environment and Heritage, Prime Ministers Special Representative on climate change in the lead up to Kyoto, and member of the Australian Heritage Council (until 2007).

He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1995 in recognition of his contribution to economic reform and was awarded the Centenary Medal for leadership of the environment portfolio in 2001. In 2006 he was promoted to be an Officer in the Order of Australia in recognition of his contribution to the development of national environment policy.