Children's Promise is governed by a Board of Directors. The Board meets regularly to provide advice and guidance.  Currently the Board consists of:

Mr Paul R Baulch, Health & Safety Consultant and former General Manager Health & Safety of the Coles Group and General Manager Health Safety & Environment, Telstra prior to which he was a risk management consultant. He has experience in the areas of social responsibility, environmental issues and health and safety. He is currently semi retired and is a Board member of Deaf Sports Australia and is involved in developing a learning centre for secondary students from the western suburbs, in Melbourne, who require accommodation to support their educational aims. He is married and has 2 adult children.

Prof Brian Burdekin AO, is currently Visiting Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Sweden, teaches in the post-graduate programme at Melbourne University Law School, and is International Adviser to a number of National Human Rights Institutions in Africa, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. From 1995 to 2003, as Special Adviser on National Institutions to the first three United Nations High Commissioners for Human Rights, he conducted over 200 missions to 55 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America where governments or civil society had expressed interest in creating an independent Human Rights Commission or similar institution. Prior to taking up his appointment with the United Nations, Professor Burdekin was, from 1986 to 1994, the Federal Human Rights Commissioner of Australia. In this capacity he conducted major national inquiries into the systemic abuse of particularly vulnerable groups ? including the homeless, mentally ill and people with disabilities. In 1990-91, he was one of the key figures involved in drafting the United Nations principles prescribing the minimum standards for National Human Rights Institutions (the 'Paris Principles'), subsequently adopted by the UN General Assembly.From 1978 to 1986 he served as adviser to a former Australian Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Federal Attorney General. Prior to this he was a diplomat and lawyer. In 1995 Professor Burdekin was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to human rights, both in Australia and in other countries. He is generally considered to be the leading international expert on National Human Rights Institutions.

Mr Caroline Hayward, currently General Counsel of Mallesons Stephen Jaques, a commercial law firm.  She handles the day to day legal work for the organisation including advising on operational, legal and regulatory issues.  Caroline also supervises the secretarial work for the entities in the Mallesons group. Caroline has a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws and completed a Graduate Diploma of Corporate Governance with Chartered Secretaries Australia in 2008. She is actively involved in Mallesons pro bono activities, especially those concerning children. She joined the Children's Promise Board in December 2010.

Ms Meryl Pearse, Principal of Space Architecture which specialises in Design and Construction of commercial fit-out and refurbishment as well as retail and hospitality design. Meryl's area of expertise is business development and maintenance of key customer accounts. Meryl has been involved with charity work since 1999 when Space assisted Volunteering NSW and then subsequently Napcan and has been appointed non-executive director of Children's Promise in September 2009.

Mrs Jacqui van Teulingen, Director of Web Policy at the Australian Government Information Management Office in the Department of Finance and Deregulation. She is responsible for developing future strategy and policy for the Australian Governments web presence specifically in the area of Web Accessibility. She is the author of several government publications on online community consultation, e-government benefits, demand and value assessment of online businesses and more recently the Australian Government’s Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy.

With a strategic management background working in e-commerce for both Sharp and Phillips Electronics, Macquarie Bank and News Corporation, she has lead the development of many prominent websites and e-business strategies. Also a  highly competent sailor, Jacqui combined her business knowledge and passion for the ocean and established and ran her own adventure based Sailing School focusing on endurance, ocean sailing and sea survival.  Jacqui has formal marketing, maritime and management qualifications and has a Master of Science in Strategic Foresight.  Her research interests include the ethics of emerging technologies; the resurgence of ‘Wisdom circles’ as a method of garnering conscious level change in communities  and collective intelligence. She is Mum to three daughters and lives by the ocean on the Sapphire Coast.

Ms Ulrike Schuermann, Founding CEO and non-executive director of Children's Promise. Ulrike is the founder and owner of Momentum International Partnership and specialises in corporate strategy and people engagement. During many years of working with the corporate and civil society sector Ulrike facilitated, designed and implemented program that brought together the public, private and civil society sectors to increase awareness of the interdependence of economic, environmental and social issues. As an international consultant during the past 6 years Ulrike has advised numerous corporations, businesses and social profit organisations including AMEX Australia, IBF Germany, Woodford Folk Festival and Telstra. Ulrike is a social scientist trained at Duesseldorf University in Germany and also teaches internationally through the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law on Business and Human Rights, Corporate Social Investment programmes and programmes to assist marginalized groups. Previously, as the Special Project Consultant at Centre for Philanthropy and Social Investment based at the Swinburne University in Melbourne she designed and delivered the Centre's first corporate social investment course which formed part of its pioneering postgraduate course in 2005 and the Centre’s work has led to the establishment of the Centre for Social Impact based at the UNSW. Ulrike was the Executive Director of the Australian Youth Foundation (now the Foundation for Young Australians) from 1993 to April 2001. In that role she developed national programs and partnerships such as the Rob Riley Scholarships with the Minerals Council of Australia, the Breakthrough Youth Enterprise projects in partnership with the Sidney Myer Fund and the Bercy Baxter Charitable Trust; and the BYTE Technology program with the Lucent Technology Foundation and the International Youth Foundation which aimed at using technology to close the gap between information rich and poor young people. She continuously sought ways to better involve the business sector in finding solutions for social problems.

Mr Peter Smith

Before joining the Bank, Peter worked with the Pacific Enterprise Development Facility (a joint venture of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation) helping develop small businesses in the pacific, and for a short time volunteered as a business lecturer in China.