Helen Salmon is Director of the British Council in Australia, with a 25-year career in theatre and public art in the UK and Australia. Helen is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers, and Commerce. She has served as a Board Director of Playwriting Australia and Monkey Baa Theatre Company, and on the Council of the International Theatre Institute’s British Centre. Prior to the British Council she practiced as a producer and a strategic development consultant to arts and culture organisations in Australia, in addition to 15 years in London theatre, most recently on the Senior Management Team of the world’s leading theatre for new writing, The Royal Court.