Brett Kobie

Brett Kobie

As Senior Vice President and Director, EMEA Digital Public Affairs Lead at FleishmanHillard, Brett Kobie leads FleishmanHillard’s digital public affairs offering across the EMEA region, which works across sectors to combine deep political and policy expertise with innovative, creative communications. A seasoned transatlantic public affairs professional and strategic digital communicator, Brett has split the last 15 years across private sector, government and non-profit roles in Brussels and New York. He also sits on FleishmanHillard’s global social and innovation leadership team.

Once apolitical and disengaged, a new class of European everyday activists is ready to fight for the values they hold dear, on- and offline

Imagine a whole stratum of the western population for whom politics and policy were once distant concerns – abstract concepts they did not feel really affected them.

Maybe they would pay attention sporadically or take note of a coming...