Beth Woods

Elizabeth Jean Woods (born 18 October 1955) is an agriculture expert and the former Director-General of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. She was also the Chair of the WorldFish Board of Trustees, an international non-profit organization whose mission is to harness the potential of aquaculture to reduce hunger and poverty in developing countries, until June 2017. Alongside that, Woods is also a professor of Agribusiness at the University of Queensland. She then went on to become one of the first female Rhodes Scholars and completed her Doctor of Philosophy in Agricultural economics at the University of Oxford.

Woods retired from her role as Director-General of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries in Queensland, in January 2021.