Harriet Christopherson is the General Manager Pre Contracts for Australia at McConnell Dowell responsible for business strategy, leadership, governance and support across all tenders and work winning deliverables. She is a Fellow of Roads Australia and a member of Women in Rail Advisory Committee, ACA Culture Committee, Roads Australia Capacity Expert Panel and the NAWIC Victorian Chapter. Her engineering experience includes over 15 years delivering a wide range of infrastructure projects across Australia including rail construction and maintenance with significant experience in alliancing and collaborative contracting models. She is passionate about McConnell Dowell’s vision of Providing a Better life and how this applies to the communities in which she works, her colleagues, clients, stakeholders and the vision for a Better Life for the future.