2025 Corporate Public Affairs Oration
Reputation 3.0 - Building and stewarding trust in the new reputation landscapeOverview
The global head of corporate public affairs for BP during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon crisis that killed 11 men and pumped the equivalent of 1.3 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and which posed an existential threat to BP, will deliver the Centre’s 2025 Annual Oration in Melbourne. Dr David Bickerton, who has been a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, is a leading corporate reputation thinker and writer based in Europe, working globally. His 2025 Oration will focus on lessons learned from the Deepwater Horizon crisis, and what BP did to recover its business and reputation from the disaster.
Dr Bickerton will also address Reputation 3.0, today’s reputation environment in which a crisis in stolen truth (cybercrime, fake news, propaganda, and distrust in institutions), threatens corporations, governments, and democracy, and what organisations and the corporate public affairs function must do to survive and thrive amid this crisis.
Date:
19 June 2025
Timings:
7.00pm for a 7.30pm start
Location:
Melbourne
Member:
AUD $290.00
Non-Member:
AUD $390.00
The Centre’s executive education programs are vendor free. Participation in Centre programs is for corporations and organisations with a dedicated and operating public affairs management function, and is not open to public relations or consultancy firms.
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