The Collections Council has appointed a Panel of Experts to advise and offer informal assistance to Mr Simpson with the 'Collecting Institutions Law' publication project. The names and professional titles of these Experts are listed below. Each of these people is respected in the professional community for their expertise in one or more of the Chapter Areas proposed for the publication. They will provide Mr Simpson with professional insight and information relevant to their Chapter Area.

Mr Simpson is undertaking the project on an honorary basis, and the Experts are assisting him in an honorary / volunteer capacity. The Collections Council of Australia is delighted to be involved with this project, and thanks Mr Simpson and the Experts for their time, energy and good will.

This list may be updated from time to time, and is accurate on 1 September 2008. 

Ms Dimitra Birthisel          
Corporate Counsel and Board Secretary, Museum Victoria

Ms Janine Bofill
Registrar, National Gallery of Victoria

Ms Rose Bollen                  
Manager, Information Management, Museum Victoria

Ms Margy Burn       
Director, Australian Collections & Reader Services, National Library of Australia

Ms Jasmine Cameron            
Assistant Director-General, National Library of Australia

Mr Tony Caravella                 
Member, Social Security Appeals Tribunal

Mr Laurie Carter                    
Manager, OHS & Corporate Risk, Museum Victoria

Mr Joseph Corponi
Senior Project Manager, Arts Victoria

Mr Michael Crayford             
Assistant Director, Collections and Exhibitions, Australian National Maritime Museum

Ms Charlotte Davy
Senior Exhibitions Registrar, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Mr Max Dingle                       
Assistant Director, Commercial & Visitor Studies, Australian National Maritime Museum

Mr Gary Dufour  
Chief Curator & Deputy Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia

Professor Graham Durant     
Director, Questacon National Science and Technology Centre

Ms Genevieve Fahey            
Manager, Scienceworks Museum

Ms Carol Henry                    
CEO, Art Exhibitions Australia

Mr Frank Howarth                 
Director, Australian Museum

Dr Livia Iacovino
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Monash University

Mr Ted Ling                          
formerly of the National Archives of Australia

Ms Caroline Lorentz              
Manager, Loans, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales

Mr Peter Morton                    
Executive Officer, Powerhouse Museum

Professor Patrick O'Keefe AM    
Australian National University

Dr Michael Pickering
Program Director, National Museum of Australia

Dr Lyndall Prott                     
Australian National University

Ms Anne-Marie Schwirtlich   
State Librarian & Director, State Library of Victoria

Ms Susan Sedgwick             
Manager, Exhibitions & Publication, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales

Mr Russell Smylie                  
Executive Officer, Australian National Maritime Museum

Mr Tim Sullivan                      
Deputy CEO and Museums Director, Sovereign Hill Museums Association

Mr Alan Ventress
Director, State Records Authority of New South Wales