Soraya Dean, Head of NAB Ready Together

Soraya leads NAB’s disaster resilience program, NAB Ready Together which supports Australians to withstand and recover from natural disasters. Soraya is an experienced sustainability leader with more than 15 years’ experience in stakeholder engagement, social impact and sustainability consulting. She has worked overseas as a consultant with organisations including General Electric, Coca Cola, and the World Economic Forum. Locally, Soraya worked at the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility across a diverse range of industries. She specialised in stakeholder research to measure and improve organisations’ social license to operate, sustainability reporting and community partnership evaluations. Soraya also worked at Metro Trains Melbourne as the stakeholder relations specialist and Head of Marketing where she built the business case for the company’s corporate responsibility function. She began her career at NAB leading the bank’s sustainability reporting team