Crystal is a Director with the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and a Sir Roland Wilson PhD scholar at the Australian National University. She has a background in environmental science and law, and is currently researching nature dependency and risk. Crystal has more than 20 years of experience in the Australian Government social services and environment portfolios, where she led development of Australia’s first national ocean ecosystem account and co-chaired the United Nations working group advancing global ocean accounting standards. Crystal continues to support knowledge exchange as a member of the Global Ocean Accounts Partnership Panel of Technical Experts and the CSIRO STEM Professionals in Schools program.