Real estate services and consultancy firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) has appointed Teanna Tan as sustainability lead for Asia Pacific.
Tan joins from KPMG where she was associate director of the consulting firm’s climate change and sustainability team in Australia.
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Her role will involve advising real estate businesses on how to integrate sustainable practices into their operations as they work towards decarbonisation targets. JLL’s offering includes the use of AI, machine learning and other smart technologies to improve sustainability outcomes. The real estate consultancy aims to reduce its own emissions across Scopes 1-3 by 51 per cent by 2030.
Tan comes on board after four years with KPMG, first in Singapore, as sustainability services and governance risk manager, then in Australia.
Before KPMG, she served in Singapore’s National Environment Agency for five years, latterly as assistant manager in the resources conservation department. Tan was involved in the development of Singapore’s Carbon Pricing Act and the measurement and reporting guidelines behind Southeast Asia’s first carbon pricing mechanism for big polluters.
