Speakers Bureau

Kylie Cochrane Design Director, Managing Principal, Communication and Stakeholder Engagement, Australia & New Zealand Aurecon

Country Australia

State/Locality New South Wales

City/Suburb Sydney

Speaker Bio

A global engagement leader, Kylie has almost 30 years’ experience in communication and stakeholder engagement. She specialises in helping clients to maintain and regain their social licence through mitigating social risk and managing community outrage.

Kylie was the Global IAP2 Chair from 2017-2022 and was on the Australasian IAP2 Board from 2011-2021. She currently chairs the Australian National University’s Advisory Board for the Institute for Infrastructure in Society (which oversees the NextGen research into community engagement trends).

Earlier this year Kylie was named one of three inaugural Honorary IAP2 fellows across Australia and New Zealand. She was named a Deloitte Outstanding 50 LGBTI+ leader in 2020 and the Consult Australia Female Champion of Change in 2018.

Over the last seven years the Aurecon engagement team has won more than 16 coveted industry awards including IAP2 International Engagement Project of The Year.