David Lang

David Lang is an Associate Partner at leading strategic communications consultancy SEC Newgate, where he helps clients navigate issues that span policy, government, business and the media.

Before joining SEC Newgate, David was based in London where he led UK public policy for Square (now Block), an NYSE-listed payments company. He previously served as a policy adviser to the former Australian Foreign Minister the Hon Julie Bishop, and spent four years as an analyst and managing editor at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. David established and led the Australia-Japan Youth Dialogue between 2016 and 2020.

David has previously been a Visiting Research Fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo, a Young Leader with Pacific Forum in Hawaii and a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum. He has been a delegate to the Australian-American Young Leadership Dialogue and the Australia-EU Emerging Leaders Forum, and is a past recipient of the Rob Chalenor Prize for Outstanding Young Strategic Leadership.

He holds a Bachelor of Business Management from The University of Queensland and a Master of International Relations from Griffith University.