Members of Smart Population’s Advisory Panel have provided invaluable advice and direction on the Foundation's establishment and projects. Advisors include:

Mr David Coe
Managing Director of the Allco Finance Group, Chairman of Sports & Entertainment Limited and Board member of the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Mr Russell Crowe
Oscar-winning actor, composer, producer, philanthropist. Patron of the Australian Children's Music Foundation.

The Hon. Tim Fischer, AC
Chairman of Tourism Australia; Former Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the National Party.

Mrs Elaine Henry, OAM
CEO of The Smith Family, Member of the Prime Minister's Communities Business Partnership Council, Chair of Commonwealth's Stronger Families and Communities Partnership and inaugural Chair of the Not-for-Profit Council of Australia.

Mrs Barbara Holborow, OAM
Author and former Children’s Court Magistrate.

Professor Frank Oberklaid, OAM
Director of the Centre for Community Child Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and the Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne.

Professor Fiona Stanley, AC
Director of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (The Alliance); Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research; Professor of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Western Australia; and member of the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council.

Professor Graham Vimpani
Head of the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Newcastle and Chairman of the National Investment for the Early Years (NIFTeY).