Prior to joining KPMG in March 2018, Stuart was the inaugural Global Managing Partner of King & Wood Mallesons, based in Hong Kong, having led the combination of those law firms in 2012. Stuart was a partner at King & Wood Mallesons for 20 years, first practising as a capital markets, securisation and financial markets regulatory expert, and then holding a number of management and leadership roles across the firm and the capital markets industry in Australia.

Stuart is a member of the UNSW Law Advisory Council. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of laws degree from the University of New South Wales.

Swati has over 30 years’ banking and finance experience across a number of sectors including infrastructure, energy and utilities, renewable energy and property. She has held senior positions at National Australia Bank, Deutsche Bank, AMP Henderson Global Investors, Bankers Trust and Westpac.

Swati currently serves on the boards of State Super and Asia Society Australia. She is a Member of the Australian Government’s Advisory Board of the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations. She has served as a former director of Australian Hearing, Great Western Bancorp Inc. (USA) and the NAB Wealth Responsible Entity Boards.

Swati holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Newcastle and is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees.

Previously, Nicole was the Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) at Macquarie University in Sydney, with responsibility for a global portfolio that included international business development, transnational education programs, pathways and scholarships, international relations, student and staff global mobility and international operations.

Nicole has also held similar roles at Griffith University and in the Queensland Department of Education.

Nicole holds undergraduate degrees in Political Science and Mandarin from the ANU, as well as postgraduate qualifications in Marketing and Business Management from Monash University, and the Australian Company Director’s Diploma.

She was the inaugural CEO of the National Foundation for Australia China Relations in 2020. She served as Australia’s Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau from 2017 to 2020, and on diplomatic missions in Singapore and Thailand. She also served as senior international adviser to Australian foreign and defense ministers.

Michaela has held senior trade and economic roles including leading Australia’s global investment promotion activities, and leading trade and investment operations for established markets (Americas, Europe, Japan, Korea, NZ and the Pacific) at the trade and investment commission (Austrade). She previously led Australia's development assistance program for Afghanistan and Pakistan, was a trade negotiator to the WTO and for Australia’s free trade agreements with the US and Singapore. She is one of Australia’s members of the APEC Business Advisory Council, on the Board of the Australia Japan Business Co-operation Committee and of the Asia Society (Australia Chapter). She is an Advisory Board member for the Asian Development Bank. She is an Ambassador for the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation. She has previously served on boards for professional services, education, veterans volunteer and disaster response organizations.

She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has a Bachelor of Economics and Masters in Foreign Affairs and Trade from Monash University.  

Breakthrough Victoria will target investments in innovation and translational research with strong potential for commercialisation across five key industry sectors such as health and life-sciences, agri-food, advanced manufacturing, clean economy and digital technologies. 

Previously, he was the Chief Executive Officer of ARA Infrastructure, a part of Asset Management Limited, a Singapore-based integrated real assets fund manager.

Prior to joining Hastings, Grant was Australia’s Consul-General in Guangzhou, China. As Consul-General, Grant led a 120-strong team responsible for all aspects of Australia’s relationship with south China including trade development, investment attraction and political relations. This included building effective relationships with senior Chinese Party leaders, government officials and leading Chinese State-owned enterprises and private-sector companies to promote Australian Government policies and commercial interests.

Previous to his role as Consul-General in Guangzhou, Grant was a Director of the China Trade and Economic area at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra and, prior to this role, served the Australian Government overseas in Jakarta, Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. Grant has a Masters of International Affairs and a Bachelor of Asian Studies (with majors in Mandarin Chinese and Asian History) from the Australian National University.

Educated at the ANU and Wharton, David is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. A former Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister, he led group public affairs at Qantas and BHP, legal and corporate affairs at Singtel-Optus, and was Head of Media in two Australian Governments.

A retired director of Opera Australia, he maintains strong interests in the arts, writing, outdoor pursuits, and photography. He received the NSW Premier’s Bushfire Emergency Citation in 2020.

Andrew also serves on the boards of the Asia Foundation Australia, the Australian Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation and earlier the Australian-American Leadership Dialogue. He has been a consultant to governments, international institutions and corporations around the region. 

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, recipient of the Japanese Foreign Minister's Commendation and the Presidential Friends of Indonesia award.

Understanding how to establish and run a competitive business across Asia and Australia is rooted in Vera’s core.  She easily develops strong client relationships and knows how to influence all stakeholders successfully.

Vera knows that being successful in Asia one size does not fit all when it comes to navigating nuances and guides her clients through this complex process. Vera’s enthusiastic and resilient qualities alongside her commercial mindset keeps her outcome focused and relationship driven.

Wayne serves on the boards of Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited and Global Invacom Group Limited, a company listed on the Mainboard of the Singapore Exchange Limited and the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market. He was previously an independent non-executive director of Floatel International Limited, a company headquartered in Norway which owns and operates a fleet of offshore accommodation vessels.

He holds various not-for-profit board / advisory roles both in Australia and Hong Kong, including Council Member of Oxfam Hong Kong. Wayne has worked extensively in Greater China & North Asia for over 20 years having lived in Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan and South Korea. He is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.  

He was previously the Managing Partner of the Australian practice of Norton Rose Fulbright from 2012 to 2020. He is also an experienced litigator with a background in employment and labour law, having spent over 25 years in South Africa, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Wayne is also a Non-Executive Director of Resimac Group Limited, a leading non-bank residential mortgage lender. He has served on the Board since February 2020.

He is a member of the Business Council of Australia (since 2012) and he serves alongside leaders of corporate Australia. Until 2021 he chaired the BCA’s Workplace Relations Advisory Group, formed to place renewed focus on the need for companies to have enhanced workplace flexibility in order to remain internationally competitive and more recently the BCA response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

He is a board member of Asia Society Australia (2017 to present) and was a councillor to the Australian British Chamber of Commerce from 2012 to 2020.

Su-Ming is non-executive director of Booktopia Group Limited and has been chairman/director of over 20 Australian companies operating across retail, technology, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare and tourism sectors. 

Su-Ming is a Professor of Practice at UNSW, a director of Sydney Writers’ Festival and a member of UNSW Business School Advisory Council. He was a member of the Council of University of Technology Sydney and a director of several other NGOs. A Fellow of the AICD, Su-Ming holds a ME from the University of Canterbury, NZ and a MBA from AGSM, UNSW.