The Centre for Corporate Public Affairs

The Centre for Corporate Public Affairs is a membership-based organisation in the Asia Pacific Region. It is based in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1990, it supports, advances and produces research on corporate public affairs as a management function. The Centre has more than 120 members from the ranks of companies, industry associations and government business enterprises.

History

The Centre was established by Geoff Allen, former founder and Executive Director of the Business Council of Australia, who remains chair of the Centre.

The Centre was launched in 1990 in Melbourne by Sir Arvi Parbo, then Chairman of WMC, BHP and Alcoa of Australia, and in Sydney by Tim Besley, then Chairman of Leighton Holdings and the Commonwealth Bank.

It has had a number of Directors over its 18 year life. It's current Director is Wayne Burns, who is also a Director of public policy and economics firm Allen Consulting Group.

Professional development

The Centre develops and offers professional development opportunities for its members and professionals who attend its events, including regular telesymposia, professional development workshops, heads of public affairs function and senior practitioners roundtables, and residential Institutes.

The Centre is well-known for its annual Politics and Public Policy Review held in Canberra, and the Corporate Public Affairs Institute. The Institute is held annually in Melbourne at Melbourne Business School and in Asia at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School of Management. The Institute program features an international Faculty and sessions led by industry professionals and leaders from leading global corporations.

The Centre also offers an International Best Practice Study Program, launched in 1996, in which a group of practitioners visit leading firms, academic institutions, and other relevant organisations in Europe and US.

It also has a professional development and executive education relationship with Singapore Management University and as of May 2008, was in negotiations with a university in China to deliver corporate public affairs executive education there.

Publications

The Centre publishes the Corporate Public Affairs quarterly, widely known as the Centre ‘newsletter’. It was first published in 1991.

The Centre has also conducted many papers, reports and research projects into aspects of public affairs practice and policy, including on corporate community investment, corporate responsibility, sectoral salary structures and rates and aspects of best practice in public affairs.

External links

* [http://www.accpa.com.au The Centre for Corporate Public Affairs online]