David Epstein & Wayne Eagleson: Dealing with Ministerial offices – the right way and the wrong way

Friday, 17 April 2026, 1:00pm - 2:00pm AEST

We are delighted to welcome David Epstein, Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Rt Hon Anthony Albanese and Wayne Eagleson, former Chief of Staff to Prime Ministers, Rt Hon John Key and Rt Hon Bill English to share insights

Both David and Wayne are Corporate Affairs professionals who served Prime Ministers of both Australia and New Zealand.

David Epstein’s previous roles have been:

Principal Adviser and Chief of Staff to Prime Minister the Hon Kevin Rudd AC

Chief of Staff to the Hon Kim C Beazley AC, Leader of the Opposition

Director of Ministerial Media & Head of National Media Liaison Service to Prime Ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating

Private Secretary to the Hon JS Dawkins AO, Minister for Employment Education and Training

Previous Corporate Affairs roles: Group Level Executive (C-Suite) at Qantas, BHP and Singtel-Optus.

 

Wayne Eagleson’s previous roles have been:

Chief of Staff to Rt Hon John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand

General Manager Public Affairs, Transpower New Zealand Limited

General Manager Corporate Affairs, DB Breweries

Head of Media Relations, Westpac

He is currently Director of government relations consultancy Thompson Lewis and a non-executive Director of Wellington International Airport Limited.




Venue Information

Virtual (Teams link emailed to attendees)

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