Tanya Harris

A national pioneer in sustainable procurement, Tanya brings deep technical expertise as a co-founding Australian technical team member, national stakeholder engagement co-lead, and committee representative and contributor to the international standard ISO 20400:2017 / AS ISO 20400:2018 Sustainable Procurement – Guidance.

With a career spanning internal and external advisory roles across sectors including telecommunications, infrastructure, property, retail, grocery, education, food and dairy production, logistics and healthcare, Tanya applies a practical practitioner lens to translating sustainability ambition into measurable action through corporate finance, procurement, governance and risk management.

Experience

With over 20 years of experience across governance, risk, sustainability and ESG, procurement and supply chain management, Tanya has worked across public, private and international development sectors throughout Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Before joining Lander & Rogers, Tanya was head of business and principal consultant for Australia’s largest independent sustainability and impact consultancy. She advised boards, executives, project teams and suppliers - across industries and geographies - on integrating sustainability into core business operations to deliver tangible and lasting positive impact.

Tanya's areas of expertise include:

• targeted capability building across sustainability topics for stakeholders from board and executive level to on-the-ground project managers and buyers
• ESG due diligence, performance management frameworks and implementation tactics
• integration of sustainability within governance, risk and procurement strategies
• development of spend-category and sustainability-topic-specific strategies and action plans
• advisory on decarbonisation, nature and biodiversity, and human rights risk mitigation and implementation.

Career highlights

Tanya's career highlights include:

• co-author and co-lead Edge Impact submission, Modern Slavery Act review and consultation (2023)
• co-author and co-lead of the Fred Hollows / ISO 20400 Australian Technical Committee Modern Slavery Act submission (2017)
• Commonwealth Government Modern Slavery Act (2018) industry consultation contributor, 2017
• national stakeholder engagement co-lead and co-founding Australian technical team member of Sustainable Procurement – Guidance ISO 20400:2017/AS 2018
• national and international ISO 20400 committee representative and contributor to ISO 20400 negotiations, 2014 - 2017
• co-author of the Building the Business Case for Sustainable Procurement in Australia Guide, 2018
• presenter and participant, UN Science-Policy-Business Forum for the Environment Governing Consortium plenary, Canberra 2019
• advisor to the Ministries of Health in Rwanda and Nepal on the development and implementation of national sustainable procurement standards and healthcare capacity-building programs, 2017-2018
• Australian business delegate at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) meeting 15 in Copenhagen, 2009.