Dianne Vella-Brodrick holds the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology and is Director of the Centre for Wellbeing Science at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. She is the inaugural Director of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (2013–2015) and is a registered psychologist and a Member of the Australian Psychological Society and College of Health Psychologists. She founded the Positive Psychology Network in Australia and has previously served as Treasurer and Secretary of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) and is currently on the IPPA Council of Advisors and was made an IPPA Fellow in 2019. Her research interests include the development and evaluation of well-being programs, particularly in the areas of positive education and performance optimisation.