Amber Harrison

Amber Harrison helps organisations find the right approach for sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and communications.

At Grain, she helps clients navigate through materiality assessments, set sustainability strategies and successfully communicate progress. She has worked with clients in the education, pharmaceutical, engineering and real estate sectors across a wide range of sustainability needs.

Previously she was Director, CSR & Sustainability, at SITA, a global IT and telecommunications provider to the air transport industry. She was responsible for the development and delivery of the global sustainability strategy, and creation of the ‘carbon neutral by 2022’ initiative called Planet+. It included the first company-wide carbon footprint assessment, an internal carbon levy for business travel, and execution of a verified carbon offset programme that delivered measurable benefits in Borneo, India, Guatemala and East Africa. She also introduced annual sustainability reporting using the GRI and UNGC frameworks.

Her implementation of a company-wide ISO 14001:2015 certified global environmental management system helped to identify and reduce emissions, and she is an experienced ISO 14001:2015 internal auditor.

Amber created the award-winning Air Transport Community Foundation, providing access to IT and education for young people, which has benefited over 90,000 students in five African countries. Before this position, she held roles in communications, marketing and design, and brand management.

Amber holds Masters degrees in Integrated Environmental Management and in Marketing. She is a Chartered Manager, a Fellow of IEMA, and a Fellow of the RSA.