FEYI AKINDOYENI
Australia | Board Member Awards
With over 20 years of experience in strategic communications, Feyi is a Partner and global digital team lead at SEC Newgate. In Australia, she helps lead the largest integrated strategic communications firm for public interest issues and is one of the country’s most sought after public affairs consultants. Her political campaigning over many years culminated in Feyi playing a key strategic role in Australia’s historic marriage equality campaign. She advises the government and corporates at the highest level, with a particular focus on the evolving role of data analytics in tracking public policy discourse.
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Feyi advises a number of key federal and state government departments including Prime Minister’s and Cabinet, Home Affairs, Defence and the Australian Tax Office on high profile social license issues.
As well as key commercial clients who look to her for reputational and engagement counsel around policy, advocacy, effective stakeholder engagement, public affairs, and social media.
Clients such as Uber – where Feyi was critical in Australia becoming the first country where Uber was legalized coast to coast; Google – helping them explain the complex nature of appropriate regulation for the digital economy for over many years, and Vodafone – supporting their battles around spectrum and telecommunications competition issues.
Previously, Feyi was at Apple, Microsoft and Education Image. She is a graduate of the University of Technology Sydney, a member of the Australian Market & Social Research Society (AMSRS). She sits on the Melbourne Fringe Festival Board and is President of the Australian Professional Government Relations Association (APGRA).