Justin Lee (diplomat)


Justin Lance Lee is an Australian public servant, currently deputy head of mission to Indonesia. Lee was the Australian Ambassador for Climate Change between 2012 and 2014. after having served as Australia's
High Commissioner to Bangladesh between 2008 and 2012.
Lee joined the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1995 and is a career foreign service officer. His positions in DFAT include Assistant Secretary of the Consular Policy Branch and he has previously been posted to Australia's diplomatic missions in Jakarta and Port Moresby.
Lee represented Australia at the 2013 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Lee holds a BA and was awarded a PhD in Development Geography from the University of Adelaide for research on the Sumba Island of Indonesia.