The Hon. Lisa Singh

Lisa Singh is a former Australian Senator and was the first woman of South Asian heritage to be elected to the Australian Parliament. She is also a former Tasmanian Member of Parliament and Minister in the Tasmanian Government. She is currently the CEO of the Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne, a leading research and policy thinktank advancing Australia-India relations at the government, business, diaspora and academic levels.  She has previously served as Deputy Chair on the Australian Government’s Australia-India Council and currently sits on the advisory board of Asialink at University of Melbourne. She is also a Board director of Beyond Blue, Australia’s well known mental health organisation.

In 2014 she was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman by the President of India for building friendly Australia-India relations, the highest civilian honour for a person of Indian origin. Representing Australia as an influential professional, Lisa has been advancing Australia’s social and economic ties with the Indo-Pacific region for over a decade. And she is the recipient of the University of Tasmania’s 2024 International Alumni Award. In 2016, representing Australia, Lisa was seconded to the United Nations General Assembly as an Australian government delegate. She continues to actively participate in inter-country dialogues and hosts and co-chairs the track 1.5 Australia India Leadership Dialogue. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Social Geography from the University of Tasmania and a Master of International Relations from Macquarie University.