Kate Jenkins AO is a leader, lawyer, adviser and advocate who has led cultural reform and advanced diversity, inclusion and performance in Australian workplaces, sport, the arts, parliament and education.

Ms Jenkins has previously held a range of high profile roles including as Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner.

She has a strong connection to sport which includes serving on the Carlton Football Club board, as Ambassador for the T20 Women’s World Cup Cricket 2020 and the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, and conducting the Independent Review of Gymnastics in Australia in 2021.

Ms Jenkins was appointed as ASC Chair by the Minister for Sport, the Hon Anika Wells, in May 2024.