Tony Grybowski is one of Australia’s leading arts administrators with a 30-year career in and with the arts community and governments.

Tony is based in Melbourne and for much of his career has worked at a national level. His experience has included executive leadership roles in several Australian arts organisations and significant arts policy work, governance, planning, strategic reviews within arts organisations and across state and federal government bodies.

In 2019, Tony established a Consulting Practice with the objective to form project teams of leading national and international experts to address issues and reviews of the Australian Arts and Cultural sector. Since Establishing Tony Grybowski & Associates the company has worked for the South Australian, Tasmanian, Victorian and Queensland Governments providing Reviews, critical strategic advice and Executive Leadership. Clients across the arts sector have included Bangarra Dance Theatre, The Tasmanian Symphony, West Australian Ballet, Back to Back Theatre and the Wheeler Centre for Books and ideas. Tony's principal consulting partner and advisor is Graeme Gherashe.

Tony was Chief Executive Officer of the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body from May 2013 to October 2018. Tony led the Council through its most significant period of strategic and organisational reform, delivering its inaugural overarching strategy A Culturally Ambitions Nation, launched in 2014, new arts funding model, organisational structure, international strategic arts development, research program and integrated support for First Nations people. Tony has extensive government policy and strategy experience and worked on the review and evaluation of numerous policies and frameworks including Playing Australia, the Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy, the Major Performing Arts Framework, the National Cultural Policy and various reviews of the small to medium sector.