Roger David Bernard Beale AO (born 18 December 1946) is a former senior Australian public servant and policymaker.
Since retiring from the public service, Beale has continued to pursue work as an artist, having held exhibitions in galleries around Canberra since 1984.
[1] Beale and his parents emigrated to Australia from India in the 1950s, so he could receive better treatment for the polio he had contracted at age two.
[2][3] Beale studied arts, training in Queensland with teachers including Betty Churcher and Jon Molvig.
[11] He also chaired a review of Australia's Quarantine and Biosecurity Arrangements, in 2008,[12] and went on to become a Commissioner of the Climate Commission when it was established in 2011.