Associate Professor Lyndon Ormond-Parker was born in Darwin and is of Alyawarra decent, from the Barkly tablelands region of the Northern Territory. He has been involved in advocacy, policy development, research and negotiations at the local, national and international level.

A cultural heritage expert with significant experience in the fields of repatriation, archives, information technologies, materials conservation, heritage and policy, Ormond-Parker has held numerous positions across universities, organisations, government committees and boards. He is currently an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, ANU. In addition, Ormond-Parker has held the following recent appointments:

• Indigenous Advisory Panel to the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) (Panel Member, 2018-present)
• ICOMOS GA 2023 Scientific Symposium, Indigenous Heritage Program (Australian Co-chair, 2022-present)
• First Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group (Deputy Chair, 2023-present)
• Advisory Committee for Indigenous Repatriation, Office for the Arts, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications, Australian Government (Committee Member, 2015-present)
• Indigenous Connections Committee, National Film and Sound Archive (Committee Member, 2020-present)
• National Centre for Indigenous Genomics (Board Member, 2018-2022)
• Australian Heritage Council (Council Member, 2015-2021)
• National Resting Place Indigenous Advisory Committee, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (Committee Member, 2019-2020)
• Return of Cultural Heritage Project Advisory Committee, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (Committee Member, 2018-2020)
• Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Reconciliation Committee Melbourne (Committee Member, 2016-2019)

Ormond-Parker has significant experience in coordinating tertiary level subjects and also in the development and delivery of 'on country' learning. He has lectured in numerous graduate and undergraduate courses across disciplines and universities.

Since 2019, Ormond-Parker has been involved in ‘Introduction to repatriation: principles, policy and practice’. This 5-day intensive ANU Masters course (also offered as a Professional Development course), has been co-developed and co-delivered by repatriation experts in the Return Reconcile Renew research group from community, museum, university and government sectors in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. Ormond-Parker led the program in 2019 on Ngarrindjeri country in South Australia.

• Johanna Parker (PhD): The Gentlemen Scientist: what can be learnt by examining the methodologies employed by British amateur collectors to accumulate Australian Indigenous human remains in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? ANU (Advisory Committee).
• Winsome Adam (PhD): Building a Ngarrindjeri National Archive. NAA/ANU Collaborative Scholarship (Co-supervisor)

• Ainslee Meredith (MA, 2017): An ‘Unsettling of Established Practice’? Concepts of Access and Value in Conservation (Co-supervisor)
• Amelia O'Donnell (MA, 2017): 'Dirty Audit’ an emerging’s conservator’s reflections on the dynamics and realities of collection project work at the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre, Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia (Co-supervisor)
• Ciara Redmond (MA, 2018): Preservation through Participation: Understanding Conservation Implementation in an LGBTQI Community Archive (Co-supervisor)
• Claire Tindal (MA, 2017): Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: An Evaluation of 3D Print Materials and their Applicability within Cultural Material Conservation (Co-supervisor)
• Kasserine Ross-Sheppard (MA, 2017): Lights, Camera, Conservation Examining Representations of Cultural Materials Conservation in Mainstream and Conservation Media (Co-supervisor)
• Keyeele Lawler-Dormer (MA, 2017): reCollections; Contributing to Australian conservation resources through community engagement (Co-supervisor)
• Molly Culbertson (MA, 2018): Good Process and Cultural Sensitivity: The changing relationship between Cultural Materials Conservation and Remote Aboriginal Cultural Collections (Co-supervisor)
• Oskar Slifierz (MA, 2017): Community Accessibility and Engagement: Issues around the storage and conservation needs, and potential relocation of the KALACC archive and collection in Fitzroy Crossing (Supervisor)