Bronwyn Meyrick

Bronwyn is a Senior Strategy Manager for Publicis Sapient, a global business consultancy firm

LSE’s motto – rerum cognoscere causas - is to know the causes of things for the betterment of society.  This resonates deeply with me, as it brings together a purpose of improving the world and a commitment to rigorously and critical engage with tough questions about how to achieve this. Like many Australians, I’ve travelled a lot internationally and have always had a strong interest in the world around me (my undergraduate degree is in international studies and Spanish). While working in South Korea in 2014 (a unique opportunity for a public servant) I realised how I could grow professionally and have more impact if I was connected to others internationally. Postgraduate study at LSE - one of the world’s best universities in one of the world’s most international cities - seemed a natural choice.

Six years after graduating, my classmates still talk about how our time at LSE was transformative professionally and personally. It’s hard to dispute that school education is important not just academically, but also socially. We talk less about this in higher education – particularly at a postgraduate level – yet one of the most important impacts of the EMPA program has been the lasting connections I have built with some exceptional people. These connections change and enrich who we are, our understanding of the world, and our collective capacity to do and be better in it.

For one thing, ours was a remarkable time to be at LSE. Our first lectures considered the seeming impossibility of Brexit, only to have the referendum prove otherwise in June 2016. Later that year, Trump was elected as US President. Again: impossible, right? The very act of flying halfway around the world to share a lecture theatre with an international student cohort came to feel like a form of resistance against a world turning in on itself. Years later, jumping on a Zoom call with my former LSE classmates (often in the early hours of the morning, Australian time) was a lifeline during the long pandemic lockdowns

I’m still based in Australia, and for the last year have worked as a senior strategy manager with global digital business transformation consultancy firm, Publicis Sapient (PS). I joined PS after fifteen years in the public sector, where much of my work focused on strategic policy and projects in education, human services, and housing - I wrote my doctoral thesis on housing affordability, climate change and distributive justice. I work a lot with public sector clients in my current role and am focused on the possibilities of digital technology as a tool for improving lives in the moments that  matter most.

Bronwyn is happy to conect via LinkedIn.