Rt Hon John Healey MP
Shadow Housing Secretary

John has served as the Labour MP for Wentworth & Dearne in South Yorkshire since 1997. Since 2010, he has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Health and is currently Shadow Secretary of State for Housing.

Peter Andrew MBE
Deputy Chairman, Home Builders Federation

Peter has a wealth of industry experience and an in-depth understanding of the issues affecting house builders. During a career spanning 40 years he progressed to become the UK land and planning director at Taylor Wimpey UK and he was also one of the four practitioners who helped draft the National Planning Policy Framework.

Samia Badani
Co-chair, Notting Dale Residents Advisory Board

Samia Badani is a public and social policy consultant. She has lived in the Notting Dale area of North Kensington for over 17 years, and she’s currently the chair of a local residents’ association and the co/chair of an independent ward-wide resident advisory board.She has been involved in the Grenfell recovery efforts currently supporting the local communities and exploring new ways of engagement with the statutory and voluntary sector. She is also a Commissioner on the Shelter Social Housing review.She has been active in the voluntary sector for over 12 years with extensive housing casework experience, and worked for different London-based Citizens Advice Bureaux, and with a number of initiatives at national and international level.

As a former member of the Westminster Equality Board, Samia gained an excellent understanding and working knowledge of the voluntary and statutory sector and the equalities agenda. She has demonstrated her public and social policy expertise both in the UK and the EU, having successfully led campaigns to improve policies and practices that affect communities across a wide spectrum.

Phillip Blond
Director, ResPublica

Phillip is an internationally recognised political thinker and social and economic commentator. His ideas have strongly influenced the agenda around devolution and public services, and have helped to redefine British and international politics.

Tom Bloxham MBE
Chairman and Co-Founder, Urban Splash

Tom’s organisation Urban Splash is an awardwinning regeneration company, which has received nearly 400 awards to date for architecture, design and business success. Since 1993 they’ve created thousands of new homes and jobs and invested nearly a billion pounds into successful regeneration projects across the country.

Mark Farmer
Founding Director and Chief Executive Officer, Cast

Mark has been at the forefront of emerging UK residential market segments such as build to rent and later living. He is also playing a leading role in modernising the construction industry through the adoption of greater levels of pre-manufacturing using more integrated and digitally enabled delivery models.

Chris Hancock
Head of Housing, Crisis

Chris is responsible for Crisis’s housing services. He leads on their funding and support for other organisations who are using the Private Rented Sector as a housing option for homeless people.

Claire Maxwell
Associate Director, Oasis School of Human Relations

Claire specialises in designing, developing and facilitating creative, collaborative and Whole Person approaches to large and small scale organisational development, is highly sought after as a One-to-One Developer and regularly works at Board level. She is also a qualified lecturer and has designed and facilitated innovative and pioneering Globally Responsible Practice workshops in Social Responsibility and Governance in international Universities and contributed to ‘The Collaboratory: A Co-creative Stakeholder Engagement Process for Solving Complex Problems’.

In addition to The Oasis School, Claire also has a longstanding relationship with the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI), first as Chair of the Council of Partners Guardian Group and now as Chair of the Board of the GRLI. On behalf of the GRLI she co-designs and facilitates high level bespoke programmes for Deans and Directors, focusing on creating systemic change within academia and on teaching next generation leadership. These programmes, which are delivered internationally, create space for the gathering of greater knowledge but also place an emphasis on developing the heart and mindset necessary for making a difference in the world.

Claire has maintained a significant involvement with the theatre and spheres of creativity. She is interested in integrating creativity with collaborative approaches and has studied Socio Drama and Action Methods and was a founder member of a Play Back Theatre Group.

Anna-sterre Mees
Senior Global Consumer and Market Intelligence Manager, Philips

Anna-sterre is an insight innovation rebel. She loves to put her creative mind to work and is always searching for new ways to discover ‘the reason why’ behind consumer answers. As she has worked on both agency and client side, she knows the language and priorities of both worlds.

Polly Neate
Chief Executive, Shelter

Polly joined Shelter as chief executive in 2017, having been chief executive at Women’s Aid since 2013, leading Women’s Aid through significant change. Throughout Polly’s career she has influenced governments and campaigned for policy change and social justice.

Jonathan Portes
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King’s College London

Jonathan is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at King’s College London. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Economic and Social Research Council’s 'UK in a Changing Europe' initiative, based at King’s, which promotes high quality research into the complex and changing relationship between the UK and the EU.

Anne Power
Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics

Anne has been involved in European and American housing and urban problems since 1965. She is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Head of LSE Housing and Communities, a research group based within the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.

Gill Steward
Chief Executive, London Borough of Bexley

Gill has had a long career as a senior leader in public services, having led both housing management and development in two large councils. She led the development of a new ambitious growth strategy at Bexley, planning to deliver 31,000 new homes.

Jean Templeton
Chief Executive, St Basils

Jean has been chief executive of St Basils in Birmingham since 2000. They were one of the Housing Corporation Gold winners for tackling homelessness in 2006 and currently the RSL Centre of Excellence in the National Youth Homelessness Scheme.