Foong Ling Kong is Publisher & CEO at Melbourne University Publishing. Over a two-decade trade publishing career, she has commissioned and edited predominantly non-fiction titles for several Australian publishers. Before her returning to Melbourne University Publishing, where she was Executive Publisher from 2006 to 2010, she was Editor of Debates for the Legislative Assembly at the Parliament of Victoria. She was on the boards of the Stella Prize and Overland, and managing editor of Anne Summers Reports.