Jason Mifsud has been leading cultural transformation across numerous sectors for over 20 years, delivering significant organisational change and development in Aboriginal and Multicultural Affairs.

On his mother side, he is a member of the Kirrae and Peek Whurrong peoples’ of the Gunditjmara nation in southwest Victoria and his father migrated from Malta, providing him with a rich sense of cultural pride, authority and integrity.

Jason has a unique and broad skill set in business, community and sport, holding senior management and executive roles as well coaching experience at AFL level with the St Kilda and Western Bulldogs Football Clubs.

He has extensive experience in community, government and corporate relations and over 10 years’ experience in leading, designing and delivering cultural auditing, strategy and training through his own private business.

Jason has held representative roles on the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation’s Suicide Prevention Taskforce and the Victorian Government – Ministerial Advisory Council for Indigenous Affairs and Economic development.

He currently sits on the Board for the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre and the national reference group Recognise, supporting constitutional recognition and change. He has also previously sat on the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission.

In 2010 Jason was recognized as one of Australia’s top ten emerging leaders, winning the sport category, is an alumni of the of Harvard Business School – Strategic Management & Business program, addressed the United Nations on Indigenous Affairs.

He is currently the Head of Diversity at the Australian Football League with responsibly to drive the strategic direction for the Indigenous and Multicultural portfolios.