About Us

Centre for Corporate Public Affairs

The Centre has been operating across Asia Pacific since it was established in 1990, initially offering membership, executive education, and research and consulting services in Australia and New Zealand.  

The Centre was founded by its Chair, Geoff Allen AO, who remains Chair today. The Centre has been led since 2006 by its Executive Director Wayne Burns, who extended the Centre’s education, research, membership and consulting offerings across Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Our team has extensive experience working with corporations, governments, and business and industry associations.

Our senior team members write, speak, and teach internationally on best practice corporate affairs and the relationship between business, corporations, and society and its institutions.

The Centre shares a close alliance and sibling relationship with the Public Affairs Council (Washington DC), the Boston College Centre for Corporate Citizenship (Boston), and the European Centre for Public Affairs (Brussels).

The Centre supports Reconciliation with Australia’s First Nations peoples who have an unbroken relationship with the land and heritage of Australia. It is an equal opportunity employer, and works to ensure diversity and inclusion in its workplace and supply relationships. 

The Centre is based in Sydney Australia and operates across Asia Pacific.



Empowering you to build a stronger profession

The Centre serves its members and other corporate public affairs professionals through its core offerings of executive education, research and its dissemination, and connecting members and peer group dialogue.

The Centre’s executive education offerings include its intensive residential Institutes in Australia and Asia, Roundtables and Modules, the annual Corporate Public Affairs Oration, and peer and issues webinars.  

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Wired into international best practice

We help capture the latest trends and developments in corporate public affairs internationally and assist our members apply these inside their organisations.

Our work assists Centre Members understand and interpret their social, political and economic environment, and strengthen the management bench strength of their organisations.

Knowledge Centre

The Centre’s Knowledge Centre is one of the largest and most extensive libraries of corporate public affairs resources globally.

It houses resources on key corporate public affairs practice areas; our Blog and Newsletters, Reports, Corporate Public Affairs Orations and video interviews. Also, our podcast Very Public Affairs; our weekly compilation of news and reports – Front & Centre, and our News Digest.

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Expertise

Our management consulting division works with corporations, industry associations, and governments globally on organisational design and capability reviews, stakeholder relation research, strategy, coaching, mentoring, socio-political analysis, and performance benchmarking.

For more than 30 we have worked at the intersection of corporate strategy and community expectations, providing high-level counsel and strategy to organisations in Australia and internationally.

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Research

Centre members have access to the best available research and writings on corporate public affairs issues and practice. 

This includes our triennial State of Australian Public Affairs report and our biannual Salary Survey report. 

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Networking

The Centre provides one of the few platforms and vehicles for corporate public affairs professionals in Asia Pacific to meet and build a community of colleagues.

Our international professional affiliations include the relationships with Public Affairs Council (USA), Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, and the European Centre for Public Affairs.

Join the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs

Please contact us on telephone +61 2 8216 0764 or email thecentre@accpa.com.au for a membership pack.