Dr Andrew Sneddon
Director, Chief Marketing Officer
“When I fly into Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, it gives me an enormous sense of satisfaction to look out the window at some of our most important heritage places and think, 'I had a hand in that'.”
Andrew Sneddon’s broad experience in heritage and archaeology includes assessments and management plans for heritage places of local, state, national, Commonwealth and world significance. He works with corporate, government, and non-government entities, and has extensive practical archaeological experience in Australia and abroad.
Andrew’s projects have included heritage management inputs for the Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Cricket Ground, Old Parliament House (Canberra), Cockatoo Island (Sydney), Garden Island (Sydney), Victoria Barracks (Brisbane) and in Angkor, Cambodia. He has also conducted community consultation (Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal) for places of social and spiritual significance, and interviews with Aboriginal Native Title applicants across Queensland.
Beyond Extent Heritage, Andrew is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at La Trobe University, and a former director of the University of Queensland Culture & Heritage Unit. He is also a member of the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee, and provides advice to ICOMOS on risk and management for World Heritage-listed places.
Andrew is also a published authority on Aboriginal and built heritage in Australia, and a specialist in the field of heritage law.