Emily Jenke

Co CEO
DemocracyCo

Emily Jenke is one of Australia’s most skilled engagement practitioners and an accomplished and talented facilitator of nearly 20 years. Emily enjoys a long term and trusted role with the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, having worked with them on their flagship engagement and democracy initiatives since 2010. In the last 12 months Emily has run 4 separate Citizens' Juries in SA (including the Safe Sharing of Roads Jury), and over her career spanning 18 years, has worked on many deliberative approaches at state, federal and local government level.

Emily is highly regarded as a specialist in deliberative practice by her clients and peers and before creating democracyCo ran a thriving business in SA in this field. Emily also offers networks across Australian and internationally. Emily has an interest in the environment and for the last eight years has sat on the SA Murray Darling NRM Board where she has driven an agenda equipping the board to put community at the centre of decision making. Emily is now the Presiding Member of the SA Native Vegetation Council and also runs a distinct and widely known boutique food business Talinga Grove with her family (husband Paul and three great kids) on the beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula.