Lara Werbeloff

Dr Lara Werbeloff is the Program Director of Fire to Flourish, based at Monash Sustainable Development Institute. Working with a transdisciplinary team, Lara is supporting the program in its aims to advance community-led disaster resilience in bushfire affected communities.

Lara is a strategy and innovation specialist, with diverse experience working across the public, private and academic sectors to address public policy challenges and system reform in areas including mental health, education and training, sustainable development and diversity and inclusion. Lara began her career as a lawyer and has a PhD in institutional change to support innovation diffusion.