Bruce Meagher

Bruce Meagher was Group Director of Corporate Affairs at Foxtel between 2012 and 2018. He was responsible for government relations and policy, corporate media management, stakeholder relations, and corporate social responsibility initiatives. He was one of Foxtel’s representatives on the Board of ASTRA.

Mr Meagher was a policy adviser to the Federal Communications Minister during a major period of reform of communications legislation and regulation. While at Freehills Mr Meagher was a legal adviser to Austar and later he worked there as Corporate Affairs Director during and after Austar’s float. He has also been a senior executive at Optus Vision and then Optus Communications. Most recently, Mr Meagher was Director, Strategy and Communication at public broadcaster, SBS.
He has been a director of Freeview Australia Limited, a committee member of the International Institute of Communications (Australia) and a member of the Federal Government’s Digital Switchover Taskforce Industry Advisory Group.

Mr Meagher has degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney.