Chris Robertson is Executive Director, Strategy, Policy and Health Workforce for the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). He has held senior leadership roles for over 20 years in health policy and regulatory reform, as well as workforce planning and innovation. He is an authority in the design and application of the National Scheme across 15 health profession boards, which was a COAG reform initiative. It established a single national regulatory scheme for what is now over 900,000 registered health practitioners, 180,000 registered students and over 800 approved programs of study in Australia. He holds a Graduate Certificate of Health Management from the Queensland University of Technology and a Bachelor of Commerce from Griffith University. He was previously a registered nurse with qualifications in critical care from the Alfred Hospital Melbourne. Chris is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors