Ms Leslie Shirreffs has extensive experience in environmental, natural resource, land and wildlife management, planning, policy and legislation. She has held responsibility for world heritage policy in Queensland as well as day to day management responsibility for the Queensland section of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area and served for six years as Chair of the Wet Tropics Management Authority, overseeing the protection and management of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. She also has served as park expert on the federal government’s Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Consultative Committee, the only non-Tasmanian appointee. Ms Shirreffs has considerable experience working with Aboriginal peoples across Queensland particularly in implementation of the Indigenous Land and Sea Ranger program and in working to reform legislation and policy as it affects Aboriginal peoples. Most recently, she has been involved in the establishment of the Gold Coast’s first Kombumerri Indigenous Land and Sea Ranger program. In 2012, she was awarded a Public Service Medal in the Australia Day Honours for outstanding public service to environmental conservation and management in Queensland. Serving on a number of boards and committees, she is currently Chair of the Queensland Heritage Council.