David Epstein

He is also a member of the advisory board for the Headon Photofestival Foundation and was appointed an Adjunct Professor in the Deakin Business School by Deakin University in January 2019.

No Longer At The Centre: Australia’s real relationship with Asia, in Disruptive Asia (Vol.1) © Asia Society Australia 2017.

Bob Hawke's Asia Legacy, in The Lowy Interpreter, Lowy Institute, 2019

David Epstein is a company director of the European Australian Business Council, Communications Compliance Limited and The Asia Society Australia Centre, and sat on boards of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO Limited) and the Committee for Sydney until 2018, and for three terms at Opera Australia until 2019.

During Epstein's tenure, BHP Billiton overtook Microsoft in size, by market capitalization, and reported a $22 billion annual profit. He left this role in September 2011, but remains a strategy and public affairs adviser to companies and was most recently Vice President of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs for Singtel Optus.

Epstein was recruited to BHP Billiton in late 2010 by CEO Marius Kloppers, to a new role as company's Head of Group Public Affairs This was speculated to be part of a response to the failure of $US40 billion bid for Potash Corp following a backlash over foreign ownership from Canadian politicians.

Epstein resigned as Prime Minister's Chief of staff in late 2008 before accepting the position of Group Executive for Government and Corporate Affairs at Qantas Airways Limited, and served on the Qantas Executive Committee. While at Qantas he managed the company's public response to the QF32 engine explosion incident, later attracting recognition from the pilot of the aircraft. Reportedly, he was also involved in negotiating the release of Jetstar executives in Vietnam in the wake of Jetstar Pacific losing $US31 million on disputed fuel-hedging contracts in 2008.

In June 2007, he was appointed Chief of Staff and Principal Adviser to Australian Labor Party politician Kevin Rudd, first heading the Office of the Leader of the Opposition, then the Prime Minister's Office . US State Department officials reported on his "significant" role in the Australian Labor Party campaign during the 2007 Australian Federal Election. In 2008 he was ranked second in the Australian Financial Review's Covert Power list.

In 1999, he left politics to head both the Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association and Australian Telecommunications Industry Association. He was then recruited to Macquarie Corporate Telecommunications, to whom he remained an adviser after becoming a partner and Director of Government Relations Australia, a corporate advisory firm.

David Andrew Newington Epstein (born 9 January 1963) is an Australian public affairs specialist, company director and corporate adviser who is Chair of Communications Compliance Limited, an independent consumer compliance monitoring body for the telecommunications industry.