Dr. Melissa Chiu is director of the Asia Society Museum in New York and vice president of the Society's Global Arts Programming. She has spoken at numerous American universities, including Harvard University. She was a Getty Research Fellow (2003-2004) and has served on grant and policy advisory committees for the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Chiu is a member of the Academic Advisory Board, Asia Art Archives, Hong Kong and is a founding member of the Asian Contemporary Art Consortium in New York, a group serving the interests of Asian art and culture at the world's leading museums and galleries. She is an active member of the American Association of Art Museum Directors. She has served as an editor for Asian contemporary art for The Grove Dictionary of Art, published by Oxford University Press in London and New York, and is the author and editor of many books, monographs, and anthologies.

Prior to joining Asia Society, Chiu was founding director of the Asia-Australia Arts Centre in Sydney, Australia (1996–2001). She earned her Ph.D. in Art History and MA in Arts Administration in her native Australia.

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