Jenny McGregor is the founding CEO of Asialink at The University of Melbourne, the founding Executive Director of the Asia Education Foundation and a member of the Board of the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre.  Under Ms McGregor's leadership, Asialink has become Australia's largest non-government centre for the promotion of Australia-Asia relations - with an annual budget of over A$10 million and activities spanning education, the arts, leadership, health and corporate and public programs.

Ms McGregor has been a member of the Boards of the APEC Women’s Business Advisory Committee and of the Myer Foundation Beyond Australia Committee. She is currently on the Advisory Boards of the Australian Centre and the Dunlop Asia Awards, a member of the Executive of the Melbourne Confucius Institute and a member of the Board of the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements and Australian Volunteers International.

Jenny has overseen the Track II Australia-ASEAN dialogue, the 'Asialink Conversations', from their inception in 2002 in Australia. Together with Professor Tony Milner she has delivered ‘Asialink Conversations’ in Malaysia, Vietnam, Sydney and India.

Before taking up her Asialink appointment in 1990, Ms McGregor worked as a political advisor (including the office of the Shadow Minister for Social Welfare) and senior manager in the Australian and Victorian governments, and then joined the Commission for the Future to research Australia Asia relations.  She has a BA (Hons) and Dip Ed from the University of Melbourne and holds the Peter Brice award for outstanding contribution to teaching and learning about the Asia Pacific region.

Apart from taking responsibility for a wide range of Asialink publications, Ms McGregor is active as a media commentator on issues relating to Australia-Asia engagement.

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.