Collette Brennan is the CEO of Abbotsford Convent Foundation, Australia's largest multi-arts precinct. Previously she was: Director of International Development, Acting Executive Director of Arts Development, and Director of Market Development at the Australia Council for the Arts; Executive Director of Brisbane's internationally acclaimed contemporary circus Circa; the founding Creative Director of The Edge, State Library of Queensland's program for children and young people; General Manager of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre' Out of the Box Festival for 3 to 8 year olds, and; Executive Officer of Youth Arts Queensland, the state's peak body for youth arts and cultural development. Collette has also worked in schools as a drama and history teacher, as a lecturer with QUT and Griffith University, and as a youth arts worker in a range of school and community contexts with children and young people.