Van Tang has been appointed GHD’s new Chief Executive Officer for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, effective 1 December. In this role, she will lead the company’s operations in Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Papua New Guinea and Fiji, comprising more than 5600 people.
Tang is an accomplished leader and civil engineer, with over 25 years of experience and a proven track record in strategic and transformational growth and performance. With experience in diverse markets, she has held a variety of roles at GHD, including her current role as Executive General Manager of New Zealand Asia Pacific.
Other roles in her GHD career have included General Manager of the company’s South Australia and New Zealand regions, as well as leadership roles on major transport and defence projects.
Tang says she is privileged and honoured to serve our clients and people in this new capacity as the APAC CEO.
“I am inspired everyday by the culturally diverse, technically sophisticated and resilient people of GHD, and the skills and creativity we bring to our clients’ challenges,” she says.
An advocate for diversity and inclusion in engineering and other technical professions, Tang arrived in Australia in the early 1980s with her family as a refugee from Vietnam.
She completed a combined civil engineering and arts degree at the University of Adelaide. She is also a proponent of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) education.
Based in Adelaide, she succeeds Ian Fraser who will take up a new role as GHD’s Chair in July 2025.
