Janine Kirk is the founding Chief Executive of The Prince’s Trust Australia which was established to represent the charitable interests of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales in Australia.

Dr Kirk was a partner at EY where she was responsible for establishing and leading the Victorian Government and Public Sector practice for the firm, and was the Leader Community responsible for the firm’s corporate responsibility engagement across Oceania. Janine was also a director of the Ernst & Young Foundation.

Janine was also Chairman of the Melbourne Prize Trust; Chairman, the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute Leadership Advisory Board; Chairman of the PNG KuKuKuKu Tribe Advisory Council, and a Director of the Invictus Sydney Games. She is a Founding Member of the Berry Street Childhood Alliance and an Ambassador for Teach for Australia and the Australian Community Foundation.

In 2016 Janine was awarded a Deakin University Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellows Award for her contribution to business, education and the community. Janine was also awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2006 for her contribution to Melbourne and to child welfare. She received an Honorary Doctor of Law from Monash University in 2007, and was appointed a Vice- Chancellor Professorial Fellow at Monash University in 2012-2015. She is a recipient of The Centenary Medal, is a British Chevening Scholarship winner; was made a Fellow of the Victorian Endowment for Science Knowledge and Innovation, and was awarded Life Membership of Berry Street Victoria, The Committee for Melbourne and The BioMelbourne Network for her contribution to those organisations.

Dr Kirk served on the ARMI Board from 2017-2021 and became an Ambassador in 2021.