Ben Pratt
Position
Practice areas
Areas of Expertise
- Communications strategies, programs and materials
- Stakeholder liaison and management
- Community consultation and engagement
- Issues and crisis management
- Government relations
Key projects
- Riverprize (Melbourne Water)
- Press secretary (Federal Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts)
- 10,000 Raingardens Program (Melbourne Water)
- External Affairs Manager (Melbourne Water)
Outline
Ben is a communications professional with almost a decade’s experience working across complex public policy issues and with senior cabinet politicians and leaders at both state and federal government level.
Trained in law and public policy studies, Ben has worked across a host of portfolio areas including climate change and energy efficiency, natural resource management, national waste policy and urban and regional water policy. Ben was Melbourne Water’s External Affairs Manager and spokesman during the city’s longest drought on record.
Ben is highly skilled in media, issues and crisis management and strategy as well as community, government and stakeholder engagement. As a manager in Manidis Roberts' Melbourne office he brings a strong knowledge of the Victorian public sector and policy challenges to our clients.