Jayne Gallagher

From 1979 to 1996 Jayne worked for the Australian government in the Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Agricultural portfolios. In this role she was involved in the APEC Fisheries Working Group and other international consultative forums. She was the first Australian Government Director of Aquaculture and in this role also had responsibility for facilitating seafood industry development generally.

Since 1996 Jayne has worked for the seafood industry including with the Australian Seafood Industry Council, with a brief period of CEO, and since 1999 with Seafood Services Australia. Jayne was responsible for the development and introduction of the highly successful SeaQual program to help industry understand and meet regulatory and customer expectations regarding food safety and quality.

As a member of the Board of the International Association of Fish Inspectors (IAFI) Jayne has been increasingly involved with seafood safety, quality and trade issues globally. In 2005 Jayne was elected as President of IAFI and hosted the 6th World Congress Seafood Safety Quality and Trade. Jayne has a Science degree with a Psychology major with a special interest in developing industry driven commercially viable and sustainable change programs.