Lyndel Hopkins

Policy, Programs, Grants and Regulation experience

Lyndel brings high-level awareness of Australian Government policy-making and agile thinking to support clients with new policy and program design.

Lyndel has successfully led many diverse and sensitive security projects, each demanding broad consultation and negotiation to balance competing risks. Lyndel keeps a strong focus on implementation, ensuring a policy or regulatory solution is going to be successful in the practical setting.

Lyndel can assist with:

• Effective consultation and negotiation to manage competing perspectives;
• Exceptional attention to detail during policy or program drafting and delivery;
• Supporting the establishment of robust evaluation mechanisms.

Experience

Following 12 years in the public sector, Lyndel brings her deep knowledge of the Australian and international security environments – including the operational, legislative and strategic challenges ahead – to the Proximity team.

Lyndel is an award-winning leader whose approach combines several key strengths:

• a focus on collaboration and agility, to achieve a tailored solution each time;
• high-level accountability and discipline, gained from a career engaging with risk and opportunity;
• unique insights developed during a decade of networking in her field, including a period in Parliament House supporting the highest levels of government.

Lyndel is highly accomplished in policy and program delivery. She combines exceptional attention to detail with a depth of academic and professional knowledge to foster high-quality and genuinely innovative outcomes.

Lyndel holds a Master of Criminology and degrees in Science and the Arts. Away from work she can be found in her veggie patch or enjoying a paella in the garden with friends and family.