Ambassador Stephanie Copus Campbell has extensive experience working across the public, private, philanthropic and community sectors in Australia and the Indo-Pacific. She has served as head of Australia’s bilateral aid programs with Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Tuvalu and head of Australia’s Pacific Regional programs. Stephanie has worked in senior executive roles with CARE Australia and the Oil Search Foundation.

From 2018 to 2023, Stephanie was appointed by the Government of PNG as Chair of the Southern Highlands Provincial Health Authority Board, with responsibility for governing all health service delivery in one of PNG’s most populated provinces. She is also the founding Director on the Femili PNG Board (providing services to survivors of family and sexual violence) and actively involved in a not for profit, social impact coffee business that supports female coffee growers in PNG with all profits funding domestic violence services in PNG.

Stephanie holds a Master of Philosophy from Cambridge University in international relations and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California in political science, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude.