Mark Triffitt was formerly Director of Strategic Communications with the Business Council of Australia, as well as Executive General Manager of Corporate Affairs with Wesfarmers Limited. Prior to these roles, he worked as a strategic communications and policy consultant advising Australian governments and corporates on political and policy positioning, and as a policy advisor and ministerial press secretary in the Victorian Government during the 1990s. He lectures in public policy at the University of Melbourne's Melbourne School of Government.