Interview with Tracey Cain, CEO H/Advisors, Australia
From The Public Affairs in Practice Podcast by Stuart Thomson
May 26, 2026 · 34 min · Episode 48
About this episode
In this episode, Stuart Thomson interviews Tracey Cain, CEO of H/Advisors, discussing her extensive experience in public affairs and crisis management.
In an interview episode, I talk to Tracey Cain, CEO of H/Advisors in Australia. We talked about Tracey’s route into public affairs and her wide ranging experience across reputation and crisis management. With more than 30 years of experience in journalism, and later in politics in Australia and the White House in the USA, Tracey focuses on governance and operational issues. She was the first in-house Director of Communications at an Australian law firm and later a founding CEO of a Health and Aged Care Foundation, before establishing APA which became part of H/Advisors in 2023.
People in this episode
Host: Stuart Thomson
Guest: Tracey Cain
Topics covered
- public affairs
- reputation management
- crisis management
- governance
- politics
- journalism
Keywords
- Tracey Cain
- H/Advisors
- public affairs
- crisis management
- reputation management
- Australia
- politics
- journalism
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: H/Advisors, APA, Health and Aged Care Foundation, Australian law firm
Places: Australia, USA
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