Kate Hartness
Director ESG
BG&E Resources
Kate has more than 25 years’ experience working with clients and communities in the Infrastructure, Mining, Energy and Property sectors. Kate’s experience spans strategic ESG, including developing decarbonisation roadmaps, target setting aligned with the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals, ESG reporting and materiality assessments, among others.
As a seasoned facilitator, Kate has led several community consultation and engagement projects, including with First Nations peoples, as well as programmes to enhance ethical procurement, improve diversity and inclusion, build local capacity, mitigate risk and reduce modern slavery.
Kate’s credentials also include government relations, specifically helping clients to navigate through evolving public policy and driving improved governance, and strategy, business planning, project management, client experience and investor relations.
She is an enthusiastic contributor to the UN’s Southeast Asian COP Committee, is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting & Finance), a Bachelor of Business (Marketing), and a Master of Public Policy.