April Palmerlee became chief executive of the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia in 2017 after a career in government, education, and the corporate sector.
American-born Ms Palmerlee was inducted to Chief Executive Women in 2019 and graduated from the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 2017. She received a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown and a Masters degree from Columbia.
In Australia, she has worked for the Lowy Institute for International Policy, the Centre for Independent Studies, and Potomac Partners. In the US, she held the rank of Assistant Secretary at the Department of State under Secretary Colin Powell. Before that, she was a senior executive at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. She has also worked for couturier Oscar de la Renta, financial publisher The Bank Credit Analyst, and not-for-profit The Spanish Institute.
Ms Palmerlee is on the boards of CIS and Georgetown University Australian and New Zealand Centre. She also chairs a scholarship selection committee at the Fulbright Commission.
