Libby Beattie
Assistant Director
Department of Education
Libby has been an assistant director in the regional policy team, higher education division at the Department of Education since August 2019. The regional policy team has primary responsibility for managing the Regional University Study Hubs Program, as well as overarching policy development relating to regional and remote higher education.
Prior to joining the regional team, Libby had been at the Department of Education since 2016, including a stint as departmental liaison officer in the Minister for Education’s office in 2018-2019.
After completing high school in Wagga Wagga in regional NSW, and a degree in journalism at the University of Canberra, Libby started her career as a radio journalist with National Radio News, a nation-wide radio news service based at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, from 2011 to 2015. She then made the move to the APS in a communications role, before shifting across to policy and program work, where she has found her passion working on measures that support people in regional Australia to pursue higher education.
