Sonja Klebe is a Professor in Anatomical Pathology at Flinders University/SA Pathology at Flinders Medical Centre in South Australia and the previous interim Research Director of ADDRI (on secondment).

A Graduate of Berlin Free University, with an MD in Protein Biochemistry and a PhD in Gene Therapy, her work has focused for the past 20 years on Pleuropulmonary Pathology. She is an author of the current WHO classification of pleural tumours and current international diagnostic guidelines for pathology, Board member of the International Mesothelioma Interest Group, chair of the ICCR for structured reporting protocol for mesothelioma and advisor to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on the Australian Mesothelioma Registry. She serves on the International Mesothelioma Panel, The IASLC Rare Tumours Committee and the IASLC Staging Committee. Her grant-funded research program focusses on early diagnosis and targeted therapy. She has more than 200 peer reviewed publications, as well as book chapters, grants and patents in the area.