Josephine is Executive Director, Arts, for the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, a position she has held since May 2024. The Banff Centre is a global organization based in the Canadian Rocky Mountains that provides learning, leadership and creative development opportunities in arts and culture across all disciplines. Prior to this, from 2020, she was Vice President, Programming for TO Live in Toronto.

Josephine has spent her professional lifetime working in the arts in a career that encompasses theatre, opera, ballet, music and the visual arts. Her work has taken her from Melbourne to Sydney and now to Canada where she moved in 2016 to be Artistic Director of Luminato Festival. Her programs were conceived with the purpose of deeply connecting the festival with Toronto’s local artists as well as curating a balanced program of work from around the world. Before leaving Australia, she was Artistic Director of Melbourne’s international arts festival, now known as Rising, one of Australia’s most respected international arts festivals.

Her earlier career was focussed on executive roles including 10 years as Executive Director for Sydney Festival, and leadership roles with The Australian Ballet, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Malthouse Theatre.

This experience has given her a strong understanding of and love across all the arts and an appreciation of the interconnectedness that exists throughout artistic practice. Her belief in the vital role that the arts play in achieving an open, tolerant, thoughtful and forward-looking society governs her curatorial vision and work at all times.

Paul Tam has served as Executive Director of the Performing Arts Division at the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) since 2020. In this role, Mr Tam oversees a growing portfolio of venues, three by 2026, and commissions, produces and presents a diverse, international multi-arts programme at one of the world’s largest arts and cultural precincts.

Prior to joining WKCDA, Mr Tam was Executive Director of the Hong Kong Ballet, where he oversaw its strategic development, institutional advancement, brand-building, education and community outreach and international touring. Other previous key executive roles in which he has served include Director of Marketing of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and General Manager of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival.

Mr Tam was a Vilar Fellow at the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts. Mr Tam is former Chairman and current Board Member of the Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association, Governor of the Federation of Asian Cultural Promotion and Advancement Committee Member of International Society for the Performing Arts. A pianist and composer by training, Mr Tam received a degree in Piano Performance and an MBA in Arts Administration from York University, Canada.