Greg Lehman is a Palawa man descended from the Trawulwuy people of north-west Tasmania. He graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology, Botany and Geography. Lehman worked as a research officer for the 1988 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and has also worked as an Education Officer with the Australian Electoral Commission and as secretary of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Council. He has worked in Aboriginal education and heritage management for many years and has served as Manager of Aboriginal Education for the Tasmanian Department of Education and has been Head of Riawunna, Centre for Aboriginal Education at the University of Tasmania.