Jenny McGregor is the founding director of The Asialink Centre at The University of Melbourne. Under Ms McGregor's leadership, Asialink has become Australia's largest Asia Australia centre with an annual budget of over $8 million and activities throughout Australia and Southeast, Northeast and South Asia spanning education, the arts, media and corporate and public programs. Ms McGregor is on the Advisory Board of the Asia Institute and the Dunlop Asia Awards. She is a member of the Arts to Asia Advisory Committee and a member of the APEC Women Leaders' Network. Ms McGregor worked as a political advisor and senior manager in the Australian and Victorian governments before joining the Commission for the Future in 1987 to research Australia Asia relations. In 1993 she received the Peter Brice award for outstanding contribution to teaching and learning about the Asia Pacific region.

Kathe Kirby works across Asialink programs and has particular responsibility for Asialink’s education strategies spanning national and international activities. A foundation member of the Asia Education Foundation (AEF) since 1993, Kathe has held the positions of AEF Executive Director, National Manager and Partnerships Manager. A background in education as a teacher, university lecturer and senior policy officer in the Victorian Department of Education led to Ms Kirby's key interest in implementing educational change and innovation in areas of national interest. In 2001, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate the studies of Asia in school education in the USA, UK, Japan and Korea.

Alison Carroll has been an academic, critic, writer, curator and administrator of art exhibitions and artist exchanges with Asia for over 20 years. She was appointed to the National Advisory Committee for the Queensland Art Gallery's first (and following two) Asia Pacific Triennials of Contemporary Asian Art in 1991. She has served on the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, Arts Victoria's Arts Development and International Advisory Committees, the Advisory Committees for Arts Management at The University of Melbourne and The University of South Australia, the Boards of the Art Museums Association of Australia, the Australia-Indonesia Institute and the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board. She established and is Director of the Arts Program at Asialink, now the leading program for arts exchange between Asia and Australia for visual arts, performing arts, literature and arts management practice.

Julia Fraser is the Director of Asialink’s Leadership and Community Programs. Ms Fraser oversees the management of a wide range of public programs within Australia and internationally. Programs under her direction include an annual 12 month leadership program for Asia – focused Australian professionals from the business, academic, government and no-government sectors, in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, media exchange programs and the development of new programs in the Health and Community sectors. Currently Co-Director of the secretariat of Asia-Australia Mental Health, a consortium of partners at the University of Melbourne and St. Vincent’s Health, Ms Fraser’s work focuses on building and maintaining the necessary partnerships that include all sectors involved in mental health in Australia and in the Asia-Pacific region to support collaboration in mental health reform in our region. Ms Fraser’s portfolio in this role includes supporting and promoting the work of the community and NGO sectors in mental health reform in Australia and the region.

Maureen Welch has been with the Asia Education Foundation (AEF) since 1993 and is currently the Director of the AEF. She has responsibility for managing the AEF’s programs including partnerships with key stakeholders at national and state/territory levels, professional learning programs, curriculum materials development and international programs. Prior to taking up this position she was Partnerships Manager. She has a background in program evaluation and a strong interest in national policy development and implementation strategies.

Meileng Tam joined Asialink in 2005 as Director of Public Programs. Her responsibilities are programming public events to be held in the Sidney Myer Asia Center and downtown Melbourne, Sydney and other capital cities. She is responsible for conceptualizing and delivering dynamic and relevant forums engaging the business and general community and The University of Melbourne. Ms Tam previously worked in the law in Malaysia and the United Kingdom.