Tanya joined the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2018. She heads up the RSC’s Policy and Evidence team, responsible for developing evidence-based policy positions to advise decision makers on how to help enable the chemical sciences community to make the world a better place as well as responding in an agile way to relevant emerging issues.

Tanya has extensive experience of making and implementing public policy. As a civil servant at the former Department of Trade and Industry and then the Department of Energy and Climate Change, she developed policy and advised Ministers on energy, employment law, European Union, small business and industry, with a largely economic policy focus.

Before joining the RSC, Tanya worked for Cambridgeshire County Council, leading economic development programmes and advising elected Councillors. She holds post-graduate degrees in European Studies and Business Administration.