Noel John Tanzer, AC (born 16 November 1931) is a retired senior Australian public servant and policymaker.
[2] In 1980 and 1981 he was serving as a senior assistant commissioner in the management systems and efficiency division of the Public Service Board.
[5] Immediately prior to his Veterans' Affairs appointment, he had been a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Social Security.
[9] He restructured 17 separate departmental units into four programs, and offered redundancy packages to downsize the department,[8] reducing staffing numbers by more than 1000.
[10] The new structure Tanzer established saw much of the department run on commercial lines and funded on a trust-account basis.