Lyndel Vivien Prott AO FAHA (born 1940)[1] is a legal academic who specialises in cultural heritage law both within Australia and internationally.
Prott completed her secondary education at Sydney Girls' High School, winning a Commonwealth Scholarship.
[2] In 1983 she was appointed by the Director-General of UNESCO as joint rapporteur on the trafficking of cultural property.
She filled many roles within UNESCO before being Director of the Cultural Heritage Division from 2000 to 2002.
[2] Prott was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to environmental and cultural property law".