Rosalie Pam Balkin (born 1950) is an Australian maritime lawyer, international legal scholar and public servant. Rosalie Pam Balkin was born in

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, South Africa in 1950. She was educated at the

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, completing BA, LLB and PhD degrees. She moved to Australia in 1977. From 1987 to 1998 Balkin was employed by the Office of the Australian Attorney-General, culminating as assistant secretary, Office of International Law. In 1993 she was ACT Human Rights Commissioner. She then moved to London in mid-1998 to work as Director, Legal Affairs and External Relations Division at the International Maritime Organization, rising to Assistant Secretary-General in 2011, before retiring at the end of 2013. In the

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Balkin was made an

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for "distinguished service to maritime law through roles with a range of organisations, to the improvement of global shipping transport safety and standards, and to education as an academic and author". As of 2021 Balkin is serving a three-year term as board member of Australian Maritime Safety Authority. She is a member of the Advisory Group at Seafarers' Rights International and is on the editorial board of ''The Tort Law Review''.

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