Priya Serrao
Priya Olivia Serrao is an Australian lawyer, policy adviser and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Australia 2019. She represented Australia in the Miss Universe 2019 competition.Early life
Serrao was born in Belmannu, Karnataka, to a Mangalorean Catholic family, but later spent most of her early childhood living in Oman and the United Arab Emirates. When she was 11, the family immigrated to Australia and settled in Melbourne and attended high school in the Mac.Robertsons' High School. She has two university degrees: one in arts and one in law from Melbourne Law School. Serrao works as a policy adviser for the Government of Victoria, and will be admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria as a lawyer in 2019.Pageantry
Serrao began her pageantry career in 2019, applying for the Miss Universe Australia 2019 competition. She was later selected as one of the national finalists in the competition for the state of Victoria on 10 March 2019. Serrao competed in the final on 27 June 2019, where she was declared the winner of the competition, besting first runner-up Bella Kasimba of Western Australia. She then represented Australia in the Miss Universe 2019 competition on 9 December 2019.
