Priya Sivakumaran – Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Director, Pacific Labour Growth, Strategy and Design, Office of the Pacific, DFAT<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms Priya Sivakumaran is a career officer with Australia\u2019s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Prior to her current role she was the Director of the Department\u2019s New Zealand and Realm Countries team.\u00a0 She has worked on Australia\u2019s development programs in the Pacific, Timor-Leste and Indonesia and as an international lawyer specialising in treaty law, trade and arms control. Prior to joining the Australian Public Service, Ms Sivakumaran worked as a corporate lawyer.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Biography Priya Sivakumaran – Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Director, Pacific Labour Growth, Strategy and Design, Office of the Pacific, DFAT Ms Priya Sivakumaran is a career officer with Australia\u2019s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Prior to her current role she was the Director of the Department\u2019s New Zealand and Realm Countries…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rse-speaker"],"yoast_head":"\n