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Heidi Alexander Deputy Mayor, Transport and Deputy Chair,

Heidi Alexander was appointed as Sadiq Khan’s Deputy Mayor for Transport in June 2018. Before joining the Mayor’s team Heidi was the Member of Parliament for Lewisham East from 2010-2018. She served in the Whips’ Office before being appointed as Shadow Secretary of State for Health. Between 2006 and 2010 Heidi worked as Deputy Mayor of the London Borough of Lewisham and Cabinet Member for Regeneration.

Matt Anderson PSM Deputy High Commissioner to the

Mr Anderson is a senior career officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and has returned recently from a posting as Ambassador to Afghanistan. He has served as High Commissioner to Solomon Islands and to Samoa and has also been posted to Papua New Guinea and South Africa. He was Chief Negotiator of the Australian-led Peace Monitoring Group on Bougainville and undertook a Short Term Mission to Cambodia.

Mr Anderson holds a Bachelor of Arts from Deakin University and a Master of Arts from Monash University and is a Graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon. He was awarded the Public Service Medal for his role leading the humanitarian and consular response to the 2009 Pacific tsunami.

Professor Peter Bishop Professor of Urban Design at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London and a Director of Bishop and Williams ltd.

Peter is a Professor of Urban Design at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London and a Director of Bishop and Williams ltd.

For 25 years he was a planning director at four different Central , and has worked on major projects at large and complex sites in the UK, including and King’s Cross.

In 2006 he was appointed as the first Director of Design for London, the Mayor’s architecture and design studio, and in 2008 served as the Deputy Chief Executive at the London Development Agency. In 2011 he carried out ‘The Bishop Review’ on ways in which the quality of design in the UK might be improved. Between 2011 and 2018 he was a director at Allies and Morrison. In 2018 he carried out a review for the Government Architect for New South Wales. He is currently working on a series of major masterplans in Barking – east London on regeneration projects in Korea, on the regeneration of central Riyadh and is curating the London exhibition for the 2019 Seoul Biennale.

Peter has been a design advisor to the Mayors of Bucharest and Zhuhai, on major international competition juries including the Sochi Winter Olympics. He is an honorary fellow of the RIBA, holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Kingston and in 2017 was Distinguished Visiting Scholar at UTS Sydney.

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Paul Brickell Executive Director of Regeneration and Community Partnerships, London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC)

Formally a molecular biologist, Paul completed a career change in 2002 in order to contribute to the gathering regeneration of his “home town” of east London, first as Director of Regeneration and Chief Executive of the Bromley by Bow Centre and then as Chief Executive of Leaside Regeneration. He contributed to the early visioning of the Lower Lea Valley and to the delivery of new homes; physical infrastructure such as road, canal and railway crossings and a new station; small business workspace; parks and green spaces; and new facilities for primary health and social care.

Paul joined the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) as Executive Director of Regeneration and Community Partnerships in October 2011. He is a former Labour Councillor from Newham, a Visiting Professor at University of East London and a recognised expert in community engagement in East London.

Professor Amanda Broderick Vice-Chancellor & President at the University of East London

Before taking up her role at the helm of the University of East London, Professor Broderick was CEO at Newcastle University London and has held Chairs in International Business and Marketing at multiple institutions in the UK and Visiting Chairs internationally. An eminent social scientist, she has a strong leadership track record and rare insight into a cross-section of strategic groupings of Universities.

Her leadership track record highlights her expertise in strategy development and execution; strong financial management and business planning; global education innovation; business partnership development; and, turn-around change management. Professor Broderick has a strong profile of forging successful collaborations within world- class higher education and business, and a high-achievement track record in business change and innovation.

She consults widely for business, commerce and public policy and is a representative on a variety of national and international bodies and committees. She led the 2014 Times Higher Education Business School of the Year. An award-winning researcher, her expertise lies in the fields of international business, marketing psychology and strategic communications with particular application to the digital and social business agendas.

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Martin Buck, BSc FICE FRICS Expert Adviser, Governance & Funding, International

Martin Buck has over 35 years of UK and international experience at the forefront of the development and execution of major rail infrastructure projects. He led the structuring and funding of Crossrail, Europe’s largest infrastructure project, and as Commercial Director was responsible for the procurement of more than US$13bn (£10bn) of supply chain contracts. Martin’s experience at Crossrail has been incorporated into the UK Government’s Infrastructure and Projects Authority’s (IPA’s) Project Initiation Route Map which has seen wide industry adoption.

Martin was a founder member of Her Majesty’s Treasury Task Force (TTF), established to ‘reinvigorate’ and centrally coordinate private finance in public sector investment throughout the UK. He was later a management board member of TTF’s successor, Partnerships UK plc, which took the lead role in promoting PFI and other public- private partnership (PPP) variants in transport-related initiatives throughout the UK and internationally.

Martin is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and holds a BSc from Nottingham Trent University, UK. He has also completed IMD’s Programme for Executive Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Matthew Carpen Managing Director, Barking Riverside London

Matthew has overall responsibility for the design and delivery of Barking Riverside, a joint venture between L&Q and the , which is one of the largest development sites in the UK.

Prior to this Matthew worked at the GLA for ten years under both former London Mayor Ken Livingston and , first as part of the Planning team and later in the Housing and Land team where he was instrumental in bringing forward a new masterplan at Barking Riverside alongside the Barking Riverside railway extension finance package, which has unlocked the entire investment area.

Michael Carr Director, NAB

Michael Carr is a highly experienced Director within NAB’s Structured Asset Finance team in London. He joined NAB in January 2018 in order to manage NAB’s entry into the market for UK Housing Association finance and now has responsibility for the origination and execution of transactions into the sector. Originally a Chartered Surveyor he has over 25 year experience in structured asset finance including structured property financings for not for profit and regulated entities.

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Cllr Clare Coghill Leader, London Borough of Waltham Forest

Clare Coghill was elected to the London Borough of Waltham Forest in May 2010 to represent the High Street ward in Walthamstow. She became Junior Cabinet Member for Health later in the same year. Subsequently, she held a junior portfolio focused on Town Centres.

Clare was appointed as Cabinet Member for Children and Young People in May 2012, leading the Council’s work on Children’s Social Care, Safeguarding and Education.

In 2014, Clare was appointed the Cabinet Member for Economic Growth & High Streets and led a fresh approach to regeneration, planning and development. Waltham Forest has excellent infrastructure, green space and transport links, therefore the priorities lie in developing new, good quality, affordable housing and vibrant town centres.

In January 2017 Clare was elected as Leader of the Labour Group at Waltham Forest Council, and subsequently elected as Leader of the Council at the AGM of Full Council on 25th May 2017. Clare was re-elected Leader of the Council for a 4 year term at the AGM of Full council on 24th May 2018.

Howard Dawber Managing Director of Strategy, Canary Wharf Group

Howard Dawber is Managing Director, Strategy of Canary Wharf Group having previously been Strategic Advisor since August 2004. In addition to work on corporate strategic issues, he is responsible for public affairs, government and external relations, and corporate social responsibility. He represents Canary Wharf externally on the East London Business Alliance, TheCityUK, and various committees for business group London First.

He is the Chair of the East End Community Foundation and is the Chair of the Business Advisory Board of the University of East London School of Business and Law. He is a Trustee of the THESIS Trust, which works to provide educational links between east London and Bangladesh. He is also national Vice-President of UK Youth, and an advisory board member of “The Line” outdoor art gallery project.

He has also been a political advisor and Parliamentary Candidate.

Howard co-authored a paper titled “Financing for Growth” for think tank ResPublica on using bonds and other innovative methods to fund infrastructure, and is the author of several other policy pamphlets.

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Andrew Edkins Bartlett Real Estate Institute (BREI), Director

Andrew has a background in real estate, from complex commercial refurbishments to being part of the team who built Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, the first ‘fast-track’ major teaching hospital project.

Andrew’s first research project led to the book The Constructors’ Key Guide to PFI. The success of this led to an additional funded research project that generated a second book The Role of Cost Saving and Innovation in PFI Projects. In 2008/9, this interest in PFI procurement (and then PPPs) led to an extremely successful Knowledge Transfer Partnership project with KPMG. Andrew’s other research interest is projects and their management. Most recently, he was part of a team collaborating on a project commissioned by Infrastructure UK (part of HM Treasury) looking at potential interdependencies arising from proposed significant infrastructure projects in the UK.

Isabel Dedring Global Transport Leader, Arup

Isabel Dedring joined Arup in March 2016 from London’s City Hall, where she was Deputy Mayor for Transport and Deputy Chair of Transport for London - responsible for setting policy and ensuring delivery across the Mayor’s transport portfolio. Key projects she initiated and delivered included the Tube Reliability Programme; the £300m Growth Fund to fund transport infrastructure to unlock new house building; the Mayor’s new £1b cycling infrastructure programme; and London’s first-ever roads strategy and the associated £4b implementation programme.

Prior to her transport role, she was the Mayor’s Environment Advisor, responsible for delivering large-scale building retrofit programmes, parks and trees programmes and the £100m London Green Fund, among other initiatives. Her previous roles include running the policy team at Transport for London and 4 years as a management consultant at McKinsey. Isabel is also a qualified US lawyer, having graduated from Harvard Law.

Dr Christian Derix Principal, Global Leader SUPERSPACE, Woods Bagot

Christian is director of SUPERSPACE, Woods Bagot’s design research group, which draws on our understanding of human experience using bespoke analytical software to greatly enhance design outcomes.

Christian has been a global leader in computational design for over 15 years, developing fundamental research for human-centric spatial design through algorithms.

Before managing SUPERSPACE, Christian founded the Computational Design Research group (CDR) of Aedas in 2004. The multi-disciplinary SUPERSPACE group works between academic sciences and practice, consistently innovating design thinking for all scales and typologies of space. He holds a PhD from the Technical University Vienna and has widely taught at universities across Europe, currently supervising architectural diploma thesis at the University College London (UCL) and recently acting as visiting professor at the Technical University Munich, Germany and the University of Sheffield, UK.

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Len Duvall OBE Leader of the Labour Party, London Assembly

Len Duvall OBE is the Leader of the Labour Party in the London Assembly and a former chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority.

Duvall was born and raised in Woolwich, was a Councillor on, and later Leader of, the London Borough of Greenwich from 1990 until 2001. He was Chair of the Thames Gateway London Partnership, a member of the Council of Europe and Chamber of the Regions, Chair of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum, and in 1998 he was appointed an OBE for “services to Local Government in London and to the Thames Gateway Partnership”.

Baroness Margaret Ford Former Chair of the Olympic Park Legacy Company

Baroness Margaret Ford is a Scottish entrepreneur and business woman who has had a distinguished career spanning over thirty-five years. She specialises in economic development, physical planning and urban regeneration and is currently Chair of STV Group plc.

From 2002 to 2008, she was Chairman of English Partnerships and from 2009 to 2012, was a member of the Olympic Board and founding Chair of the Olympic Park Legacy Company which had responsibility for delivering the physical regeneration of East London around the Olympic Park. Margaret was appointed to the House of Lords in 2006 and sits as an Independent Life Peer. She was awarded an OBE for services to Sport and Business in the 2019 Honours List.

Lyn Garner Chief Executive, London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC)

Lyn joined LLDC, the body responsible for the development of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and its surrounding areas, as Chief Executive in February 2018. Lyn is responsible for overseeing the delivery of 33,000 homes, 40,000 jobs, and the forthcoming East Bank site, a new cultural and education district comprising of new buildings for the V&A museum, Sadler’s Wells, BBC Music, and new campuses for UCL East and UAL’s London College of Fashion. Lyn is also currently serving as Chair of Future of London, an independent network for regeneration, housing and economic development.

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Sir Peter Hendy CBE Chair, Network Rail and Chair, London Legacy Development Corporation

Sir Peter Hendy has been the Chair of Network Rail since July 2015, and Chair of the London Legacy Development Corporation since July 2017.

Sir Peter was previously Commissioner of Transport for London (TfL) since 2006, having served since 2001 as TfL’s Managing Director of Surface Transport. He led, and played a key role in preparing for, the successful operation of London’s transport for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. He was formerly Deputy Director UK Bus for FirstGroup and previously Managing Director of CentreWest London Buses. He started his transport career in 1975 as a London Transport graduate trainee. Sir Peter was President of the International Public Transport Association (UITP) from 2013 to 2015.

He is the International President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport for 2019, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transport and a fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers. He supports the Railway Children and London Poppy Day Charities, is a trustee of London’s Transport Museum and from July 2019 will be a trustee of The Science Museum Group.

He holds honorary doctorates from the City University, the University of Leeds, the University of Bath and Queen Mary University London. He was knighted in the 2013 New Year’s Honours List, having been made CBE in 2006.

Andrew Herring Partner, Squire Patton Boggs

Andrew Herring advises clients in the PPP/P3, transportation and energy industries. His practice has a particular focus on the rail and metro sector, and Andrew has nearly 20 years’ experience of advising public and private sector clients on some of the most high profile and innovative transactions in this key global industry.

Andrew has been rated for a number of years in the leading guides to the UK legal profession.

Sir David Higgins Gatwick Airport Limited – Chairman

Sir David Higgins comes from a technical background in civil engineering, and has wide-ranging experience in major infrastructure and building projects from funding to commercial development, design and delivery in Australia, the UK and Africa. In the last 22 years, he was the Chief Executive of Lendlease, English Partnerships, the London Olympic Delivery Authority and Network Rail, responsible for the development and delivery of major projects and infrastructure. He is currently the Chairman of Gatwick Airport Limited, Senior Advisor to Quintain and Global Infrastructure Partners, and a Non- Executive Director at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

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Sir George Iacobescu CBE Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Canary Wharf Group

Sir George Iacobescu CBE is a Civil and Industrial Engineer and Chairman & CEO of Canary Wharf Group, the owners and developers of the Canary Wharf estate in London Docklands. He is one of the most successful Romanian born business leaders in the world, and has been responsible for the construction and development of many landmark buildings in the UK, Canada and the United States.

In 1988 Sir George came to London as a Senior Vice President of Olympia & York, to oversee the construction budget and delivery of the ambitious Canary Wharf project. He stayed with the project when Olympia & York went into administration in 1991 and worked as Construction Director under the Chairmanship of Lord Levene. In 1997 he became the Chief Executive of the group and also Chairman in 2011 but has recently announced his looming retirement as CEO.

Robert John Former Deputy Chief Executive, Canary Wharf

Robert has had a 40 year career primarily in finance and development. He has held a number of executive and non-executive directorships in both sectors and these have included directorships of public, private and government entities as well as a number of charitable and Welsh organisations.

• Qualified as a barrister 1972 • 1973 -87 worked in the City (Citibank 1973-80) Nat West Investment Bank 1980-87) • 1987-92 Deputy Chief Executive Canary Wharf • 1993-1996 Partner KPMG focusing on PFI/regeneration • 1996-2004 Senior Advisor Canary Wharf • 2004 to date. Various directorships including 3 years with the Olympic Legacy Board; advisor to Actis on African development

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Social & Economic Development Manager Elise John-Lewis Social & Economic Development Manager, Elephant Park, Lendlease

Elise John-Lewis is the Social and Economic Development Manager at Elephant Park. Having worked in CSR in the built environment for over a decade, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience on stakeholder engagement and management, employment and skills and community acquired from a variety of build types including education, healthcare, residential, offices and hotels.

Elise has previously worked extensively within the London Borough of Southwark having delivered social and economic added value whilst with Balfour Beatty on the Southwark Building Schools for the Future programme and has previously been responsible for negotiating and implementing section 106 obligations, delivering on economic added value, apprenticeships, SME engagement, educational programmes and strategic Elise John-Lewis is the Soialpartnerships. and Eonomi Development Manager at Elephant Par. Having wored in CSR in the built environment for over a deade she brings a wealth of nowledge and experiene on staeholder engagementKathy and Jonesmanagement employment and sills and ommunity aquired from a variety of build types inludingExecutive eduation Chair, KJA healthare and ECF residential offies and hotels.

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Oliver Jones EY Global Transactions Leader for the Government and Public Sector; and Partner, Geostrategic Business Group

Before moving to London in 2018, Oly was based in Sydney for ten years, leading EY Oceania’s Economics, Regulation and Policy team and was an adviser to the Joint Federal/State Commission that recommended Badgerys Creek as the site for Western Sydney Airport. Prior to starting his career in consulting, he was a senior civil servant in the UK Government, working in four different UK Government Departments: the (then) Department of Trade and Industry, the Prime Minister’s Office, HM Treasury and the Department of Transport. Oly earned an MA in Geography from the University of Cambridge.

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Sarah Kay Director, Global Client Stream Leader, Woods Bagot

Sarah is the Global Client Experience Leader and a Director at Woods Bagot. Her architectural career spans two decades and three continents.

Sarah has built lasting client relationships and delivered projects in London, Melbourne, Sydney and New York. She has a deep understanding of the challenges, both local and universal, facing global organisations keeping pace with a fast-changing world. Sarah is focused on adding value to her Clients’ businesses through foresight and vision to the future. Some of the world’s most successful organizations, including Google, Lendlease, Sydney Airport, Bloomberg, LinkedIn, and Macquarie Group return to Sarah for her fluency in the languages of design and business, and her ability to guide clients through changes that result in enhanced user experience and productivity.

Sarah is a Woods Bagot Strategy Council Global Leader and a member of the Woods Bagot Board.

Lord Robert Kerslake Chair, Peabody Housing Association

Former Head of the Civil Service and CEO of both the Department for Communities and Local Government and Homes and Communities Agency, Lord Kerslake has extensive experience of promoting new and affordable housing, supporting regeneration, improving housing stock and advancing sustainability and good design. He is currently Chair of Peabody Housing Association and has chaired a number of public Boards including King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the Centre for Public Scrutiny and the Local Government Association. He became Baron Kerslake of Endcliffe in the City of Sheffield in 2015. He also serves as Chair of Sheffield Theatres and on the Board of Governors for Sheffield Hallam University.

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Dan Labbad Chief Executive Officer Europe, Lendlease

Dan was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Europe in 2009 and is based in London.

Between August 2014 and July 2018, Dan held the dual roles of Chief Executive Officer, International Operations and Europe, where he was responsible for overseeing the disciplined expansion of Lendlease’s Europe, Americas and Asia regions. After rebuilding Lendlease’s international platform, and following Lendlease’s rapid expansion in Europe, Dan’s current role of CEO Europe focuses on continuing to build and deliver the region’s extensive pipeline.

Previously, from July 2012 until August 2014, Dan was Group Chief Operating Officer.

Dan began his Lendlease career in 1997 in Australia and between 1999 and 2001 he served as Lendlease’s Project Director for the Expansion of Sydney Airport ahead of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. In 2001, he left to take up the role of Chief Executive of The Hornery Institute, a not-for-profit organisation established by Lendlease employees and shareholders. This role ignited Dan’s passion for Sustainability and he continues to actively champion Sustainability, having previously served as a director of the Green Building Council of Australia and as Chairman of the UK Green Building Council.

Returning to Lendlease in 2004, Dan served in senior roles before he relocated to London in 2006.

Dan holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (1st Class Honors) from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of NSW, Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM).

Kristy Lansdown Project Director, Elephant Park, Lendlease

Kristy is Lendlease’s Project Director for Elephant Park, where she is ultimately responsible for all aspects of the £2.5b regeneration project in London.

Kristy took up her new role as Project Director in July 2018, following 3 years as Head of New Business, where she and the team were responsible for identifying strategic growth opportunities for the Lendlease development business in the UK, and ultimately secured over £10bn of new projects including the Euston Estate redevelopment, High Road West, Haringey and Silvertown Quays. During the past 13 years with Lendlease in London, Kristy has lead teams during the design, planning and delivery of mixed-use regeneration projects including the Athletes’ Village for the London 2012 Olympic Games, Elephant Park, the International Quarter in Stratford and Greenwich Peninsula.

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Professor Paola Lettieri Academic Director, UCL East

Professor Paola Lettieri is Academic Director for UCL East, UCL’s new campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. UCL East will be a world-class campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, bringing together researchers, students, communities and partners to collaborate on solutions to the biggest, and most fundamental, challenges facing humanity – both today and in the future. UCL East is the largest ever single expansion of UCL since we were founded nearly 200 years ago.

She is also Professor of Chemical Engineering and Vice Dean (Strategic Projects) in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at UCL. She joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in 2001 as a Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the first female engineer to be awarded a RAEng Fellowship.

She is co-author of a book published by Springer on Fluidized bed reactors: processes and operating conditions. She is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. She is a member of the International Expert Group on LCA for integrated waste management.

Toby Lloyd Special Adviser, 10 Downing Street

Toby Lloyd has worked in housing policy across the public, private and voluntary sectors for over ten years, and was the Prime Minister’s Special Adviser on housing and local government until July 2019. Before entering government he was head of policy for Shelter, the leading housing and homelessness charity, and led their proposal for new garden city that was the runner-up for the Wolfson Economics Prize 2014. Previously he led Navigant Consulting’s policy and strategy division, where he advised local and national government and the private sector on housing, planning and regeneration, and a senior policy manager for the where we worked on the Thames Gateway and the London 2012 Olympics. His co-authored book, Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing, was published in 2017.

David Lunts Interim Chief Executive Officer: Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation Executive Director: Housing & Land - Greater London Authority

David Lunts joined Old Oak and Park Royal Development as the Interim Chief Executive Officer in February 2019. Whilst leading on delivering London’s largest Opportunity Area, he continues on a part time basis with his responsibilities as the Executive Director for Housing and Land at the GLA.

Between 2009-2012 David led as the Executive Director for London at the Homes and Communities Agency. His earlier career included three years at the GLA as Executive Director of Policy and Partnerships under , a leading role in housing and regeneration with Manchester City Council during the 1980s and early 90s and a three year spell as director of Urban Policy for John Prescott at the former Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

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Tony Meggs, CB Chairman, Crossrail Limited

Tony Meggs became Chairman of Crossrail Limited on 14 January 2019.

Tony was previously Chief Executive of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, reporting to both Cabinet Office and HM Treasury, and Head of the Government’s Project Delivery Function. Tony joined the Cabinet Office in October 2014 as Chief Executive of the Major Projects Authority, which subsequently merged with Infrastructure UK in January 2016.

Tony was previously the Head of Technology at BP, responsible for BP’s central project and engineering functions and all corporate R&D. Prior to that, he was a member of the BP Exploration Executive Committee, with responsibility for BP operations in North Africa and Latin America. He has more than 30 years’ experience in the energy sector, where he worked in a wide variety of strategic, operational and oilfield development roles, holding leadership positions at global, regional and local levels. Through his work he has also been involved in the development and financing of clean energy startup companies in the US, and led a comprehensive study of the future of natural gas, working with the former US Secretary of State for Energy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Tony co-founded the BP Projects Academy to build a network of major project leaders with skills to mitigate risk and maximise the success of BP’s global projects. This was later the inspiration for the Government’s Major Projects Leadership Academy (MPLA), run by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority and Oxford Said Business School, the Government’s flagship programme for project leaders. To date more than 600 senior project leaders in government have enrolled on the scheme.

In 2019 Tony was awarded a CB in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in recognition for his commitment to public service.

Cllr Kyrsten Perry Tower Hamlets

Australian Kyrsten Perry was elected to Tower Hamlets Council in 2018, representing the communities of Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs. A graduate of Politics and Art from Sydney University, and previously a political activist in the Emerald City, Kyrsten has forged a career in East London, working in social enterprise and business development, while representing some of the poorest residents of the UK capital. She has particular responsibilities within Tower Hamlets Council to promote active transport.

Kyrsten’s ‘day job’ is Place Based Giving Manager at the East End Community Foundation, based in Canary Wharf. It is a unique philanthropy service provider tackling some of the most pressing needs in deprived East London communities, making local giving simple for business and philanthropists by working together to create funds, build endowments and distribute grants to local community groups.

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Jules Pipe CBE Deputy Mayor, Planning, Regeneration and Skills

Jules Pipe is working on key priorities for the Mayor, including: revision of the London Plan, major regeneration projects across the capital, ensuring London’s infrastructure needs are delivered to benefit all Londoners, and building a skills system that properly addresses the needs of young people and the economy.

Jules has unrivalled knowledge of London government, becoming the first directly elected in 2002 and serving as Chair of London Councils from 2010 until he joined the Mayor’s team in 2016.

Gavin Poole Chief Executive Officer, Here East

Gavin Poole is CEO of tech hub Here East, developed ion the site of the former Olympics media centre in Stratford. The former Press and Broadcast centres of the 2012 Games now provides dedicated and versatile space for start-ups and entrepreneurs to co-exist and collaborate with top global businesses and world-renowned academic institutions to deliver genuine innovation and to bring a lasting Olympic legacy to East London. With a distinguished engineering, strategic and operational career as a senior officer in the RAF, Gavin comes to the Here East role with a wide range of experience. He also served as Executive Director of the Centre for Social Justice, a Westminster centre right think tank, and as a Trustee of charities focussed on disability and Olympic legacy. He is also a former Private Secretary and Advisor to the UK Minister for Defence.

Chris Roberts Former Chair of Thames Gateway and Former Leader, Royal Borough of Greenwich

As the former Leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich he led one of London’s most ambitious regeneration agendas, including the Greenwich Peninsula, Royal Arsenal and Kidbrooke Village developments. He also led successful campaigns to secure the delivery of major infrastructure projects, not least the delivery of Crossrail to the Borough. His experience includes time as Chair of the Thames Gateway London Partnership of 10 local authorities in London, as well as time leading on planning and regeneration for London Councils. A former member of the Mayor’s London Housing Board and Local Enterprise Partnership, he led Greenwich to secure Royal Borough status and through the period when it hosted major events in the Olympic Games.

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Cllr Darren Rodwell Leader, Barking & Dagenham

Councillor Rodwell was first elected to Barking and Dagenham Council in 2010 and became Leader in 2014. Prior to becoming a councillor, he was at the forefront of the Labour Party campaign which defeated the in 2010. Since becoming Leader, Councillor Rodwell has set the vision and direction of Barking and Dagenham as London’s growth opportunity.

Councillor Rodwell’s vision for Barking and Dagenham is of one borough, one community, where nobody is left behind. Central to this is building new housing developments, supporting schools and colleges to improve skills, developing cultural programmes like the Summer of Festivals and attracting investment in exciting opportunities to create jobs in the borough.

Councillor Rodwell has placed the creation of new opportunities for residents, both young and old, at the heart of Barking and Dagenham’s new approach by investing in building communities as well as homes. Under Councillor Rodwell’s leadership, the borough has been successful in both its attempt to acquire London’s Historic Billingsgate, New Spitalfields and Smithfield markets under one roof and in building London’s first OnSide Youth Zone which offers activities to up to 1500 children a week.

Ben Rogers Director, Centre for London

Ben is an urbanist, researcher, writer and speaker, with a particular interest in urban life, citizenship, public service reform and the built environment. He founded Centre for London in 2011 and has written reports on charitable giving, delivering London’s large sites and the challenges facing the West End. Previously Ben was an Associate Director of IPPR for five years and subsequently led strategy teams at Haringey Council, the Department for Local Government and Communities and the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, where he wrote the government’s strategy on ‘Quality of Place’. Ben is the author of several acclaimed books on philosophy, history and democracy, and an experienced journalist and broadcaster. He has been a Contributing Editor to Prospect Magazine, a visiting fellow at the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the London Finance Commission, chaired by Professor Tony Travers. Ben is also a trustee of The Yard Theatre.

Joanna Rowelle Director, Integrated City Planning, Arup

Joanna leads Arup’s economic development and regeneration projects linked to infrastructure investment, masterplans and strategic city plans. She also advises city governments on a wide range of topics including infrastructure investment, airport cities, regeneration and economic policy. Before this, Joanna worked for the Mayor of London in economic policy and then led the regeneration department through the London Olympics in 2012. This role included overseeing multiple regeneration programmes across London with a focus on infrastructure including Crossrail, economic development and high streets. She is currently working in projects in the UK, Australia and China. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and a Member of the Institute of Economic Development.

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Brendan Sarsfield Chief Executive, Peabody

Brendan is Chief Executive of Peabody, a housing association owning and managing 67,000 homes in London and the South East. Peabody is a landlord, property developer (building over 2,500 homes per annum), care provider, investor in communities, and is even building a new town at Thamesmead in south east London. It has a turnover of £650m per annum; makes a profit of £168m per annum and invests a further £300m per annum into new homes. It employs 3,000 people.

Brendan has worked in housing all of his professional life and sees housing associations as a great model for delivering a social purpose. He sees his role as the guardian of the values and the vision of the organisation whilst delivering excellent homes and services at prices people can afford. Brendan is a campaigner for the needs of ordinary Londoners and the importance of diversity in the city.

Brendan graduated from Leeds in 1982 with a degree in Architectural Engineering.

Iain Smith Stakeholder Engagement & Public Affairs Manager, Elephant Park, Lendlease

Iain is the Public Affairs and Stakeholder Engagement Manager for Lendlease on its Elephant Park regeneration project, a £2.3bn development that is re-establishing the Elephant & Castle’s status in Zone 1 as a desirable and successful Central London destination. Iain joined Lendlease in 2013 as Communications Manager, where his responsibilities included PR, social media and community communications across Elephant Park. Iain has recently moved into a new role, where he will focus on Elephant Park’s public affairs and stakeholder engagement strategy. He previously worked in public affairs at the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Cllr Danny Thorpe Leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich

Cllr Thorpe has responsibility for the overall political leadership, direction and vision of the Council alongside the portfolio of Community and Corporate Services.

Councillor Thorpe has been a Councillor in the Royal Borough of Greenwich since July 2004. He represents the Shooters Hill ward and was appointed to the Royal Borough’s Cabinet as Lead Member for Regeneration and Transport in 2014. Councillor Thorpe became Deputy Leader of the Council in 2016 and held the Cabinet portfolio for Regeneration and Sustainability.

Whilst his career has spanned various sectors, every role has been about providing opportunities for others and has focused on community and youth work.

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Jo Valentine, Baroness Valentine Former CEO of London First

Baroness Valentine is a Crossbench member of the British House of Lords.

Baroness Valentine’s career spans the city, industry, campaigning and regeneration. She is currently working in Blackpool on behalf of Business in the Community, bringing together businesses to tackle systemic issues in the community and create a positive and resilient community. Her non executive roles include vice chair of UCL, non executive director of HS2 and chair of Heathrow Southern Railway.

Baroness Valentine previously ran London First for many years. She joined the organisation in 1997 as Managing Director, becoming Chief Executive in 2003. London First’s mission is to make London the best place in the world in which to do business. Its members include leading retailers, investment banks and property companies.

Prior to London First, Baroness Valentine worked in corporate finance at Barings Bank, where she became the first female manager. In 1988, on secondment from Barings, she established and ran ‘The Blackburn Partnership’, a public-private partnership to regenerate Blackburn, Lancashire. In 1990 she joined The BOC Group to head the corporate finance and planning function, leaving in 1995 to establish the Central London Partnership (CLP).

She was on the National Lottery Commission until September 2005 and was recommended by the House of Lords Appointments Commission to be made a life peer later that year; she was made Baroness Valentine, of Putney in the London Borough of Wandsworth. She was a member of the Board of Governors for The Peabody Trust, a London housing association, from 2012 to 2017.

Baroness Valentine was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School and St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where she read Maths and Philosophy. She also has an Honorary Doctorate in Law from Roehampton University. She was a board member of the New West End Company and of inward investment agency Think London and was a Trustee of Teach First.

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Sir Former

Robin was Chair of London Councils from 2000-2006, a Committee Member of London 2012 and a Director of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). As Chair of the stakeholder Committee representing the six Olympic Boroughs he led the successful campaign to secure a local legacy benefits from the Games.

As Leader (1996 – 2002) and later executive Mayor (2002 – May 2018) of Newham he was the first to provide free school meals for all primary children, introduced the first Borough wide private sector licensing scheme, set up new housing companies to deliver social, affordable and market rent properties and pioneered an innovative, ethical, commercial approach to the ownership and management of Council services to challenge traditional in-house and outsourcing models. Working with large private sector employers he created a hugely successful jobs brokerage, matching local residents looking for work to employer needs with the result that unemployment rates in Newham saw the largest decrease in the UK. During the most financially challenging time for local government in living memory there were no cuts to front line services and Council Tax was frozen for 10 years.

He was awarded a knighthood in 2000 for services to local government.

Robin is currently a Senior Policy Advisor at Policy Exchange.

Mark Wild Chief Executive, Crossrail Limited

Mark Wild became Chief Executive of Crossrail Limited on 19 November 2018.

With the focus shortly moving to full-time testing, Mark Wild will lead the hugely complex project through its final phases, including trial running, trial operations and the opening of the central section.

Mark Wild joined Crossrail Limited from , where he has served as Managing Director since June 2016. He will return to his role at London Underground once the Elizabeth line has opened through central London.

Prior to joining London Underground as Managing Director, Mark Wild served as Special Advisor to the Minister and Secretary of the State Government of Victoria, Australia. Previously, he had been the Chief Executive of Public Transport Victoria, the integrated transport authority based in Melbourne, which serves a population of some six million people.

He was also Managing Director of Westinghouse Signals, where he was responsible for successful integration projects such as the upgrade of the Victoria line for London Underground as well as the delivery of Communications-Based Train Control metro lines around the world, including the Downtown Line in Singapore, Airport Line in Taiwan and Line 5 in Beijing.

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Alwen Williams Group Chief Executive Officer, Barts Health NHS Trust

Alwen has been a manager in the NHS since 1980, working in primary care, community and acute services, commissioning and joint planning. She became chief executive of Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trusts (PCT) in June 2004, was seconded to the post of chief executive of East London and the City Alliance of PCTs in 2009 and in January 2011 became the Chief Executive of NHS East London and the City.

In December 2011 Alwen also took on the role of chief executive of NHS Outer North East London leading the two Primary Care Trust clusters which cover all the London boroughs in north east London: City and Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest.

From April 2013, Alwen assumed the national role of director of delivery and development for the NHS Trust Development Authority.

On 1 June 2015, Alwen moved to Barts Health NHS Trust as interim chief executive and became substantive chief executive on 21 October 2015.

Geoffrey Winters Student, Master of Public Policy

Geoffrey is undertaking a Master of Public Policy at Blavatnik School of Government and Balliol College, Oxford as a 2018 Charlie Perkins scholar. Born in Orange but raised in Richmond in north west Sydney, Geoffrey graduated from the University of Sydney with a combined Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Economy and a Bachelor of Law in 2015.

Prior to being selected for his scholarship to Oxford, Geoffrey was a director and lawyer at Chalk & Behrendt, Lawyers, as well as a board member for the NSW Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network. Before practising as a lawyer specialising in public law and Indigenous land rights, he clerked for two justices of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He is a council member for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Foundation and has been actively involved as an adviser to the Deerubbin Aboriginal Land Council, the largest private land owner in Western Sydney.

A proud Kamillaroi man Geoffrey aspires to serve the community through an active career in public policy and politics and has already stood for election to the Federal Parliament - the first openly Aboriginal Liberal Party candidate in Australia.

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