Jeannie Lopes is a Senior Advisor to Bondi Partners based in London. She has deep networks across the political and private sectors and possesses broad experience and a long and well-developed interest in bilateral relations between the UK and Australia, the Commonwealth broadly and, more recently, in the trilateral security pact, AUKUS.

 

Jeannie has been the UK Ambassador for Advance since 2018 leading Advance’s engagement in the UK and was appointed to the Advance Board in 2022. In addition to her work at Bondi, she sits on the Board of the Britain-Australia Society and the Australian Advisory Board of the Global Foundation.

Jeannie has a unique perspective on business, investments, education and culture across the three nations as a 7th-generation Tasmanian who has lived in the U.S. and in Sydney before she moved to UK in the 1990s to work for the BBC World Service.