Since 2013 Gordon is the Head of Planning & Public Affairs at Battersea Power Station Development Company (BPSDC) which oversees the delivery of the 10m sq ft regeneration of the Battersea Power Station site. Prior to joining, Gordon was Team Leader – Major Applications at Southwark Council where he facilitated high profile developments including 1 Blackfriars and the wholescale redevelopment of London Bridge Station. As well as his role at Battersea Power Station, Gordon is a Planning Committee Member at Old Oak & Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) and is a member of the Nine Elms Vauxhall Strategy Board.

Jay Ahluwalia is a Principal at Dominvs Group. Jay provides oversight across all elements of the Group’s business, including its expansion into new property classes, its property redevelopment strategies and plans, and its social value and community impact projects. Within the business, he provides leadership on the Group's corporate partnerships, stakeholder engagement, and branding strategies.

Muniya Barua is Managing Director — Policy & Strategy at London First, responsible for the thought leadership and member engagement for London First. Formerly Director of Corporate Affairs, Muniya was responsible for raising London First’s external profile and led its campaigns, media, public affairs, events and marketing teams.

Sarah is an experienced planner with twenty years’ experience working in the private sector in London. At London First, Sarah leads on all our planning policy advocacy and represented our members throughout the London Plan examination in public. She works closely with the GLA and London Boroughs to bring together the public and private sectors to help foster a positive planning climate for development in the capital. She also leads on our High Streets work and recently published a manifesto of planning and development asks to support the positive transformation of high streets and town centres.

Andy is the Global Head of the Firm’s Real Estate practice. He has been at Linklaters over 25 years and has extensive experience in the acquisition, financing, development, letting and disposal of all types of commercial real estate both in the UK and Continental Europe. Andy is listed as a Leading Individual in Legal 500 and ranked in Chambers. Outside Linklaters, he is a Trustee and Chairman of Barts Charity, a leading healthcare charity.

Rebecca joined British Land in 2014 following a career in journalism. She is responsible for overseeing the delivery of British Land’s social sustainability strategy across its London office campuses, heading up a team that partners with local communities, customers and the supply chain to deliver maximum social value. Her role includes oversight of key politics and policy at local, regional and national level. Rebecca is also a Trustee of Exposure, a charity that upskills young people from diverse and challenging backgrounds in digital communication.

Graeme is TfL’s Commercial Development Director and is responsible for the organisation’s land and property across the capital. His current focus is TfL’s new standalone commercial property company which will be delivering 20,000 homes (half of which will be affordable) over the next ten years as well as a portfolio of new commercial offices, starting with 600,000 sq. ft across Bank, Paddington and Southwark. The new vehicle will also unlock much greater investment in TfL’s existing commercial estate, which includes over 1,000 retail units in and around stations, as well as over 850 arches across London. All net revenue raised from the commercial activity is returned to TfL to reinvest in London’s transport network.

John Dickie is the Chief Executive at London First. Formerly the organisation’s Director of Strategy and Policy, he was responsible for the business membership organisation’s public policy development and its member management team. A former Deputy Leader of Camden Council in London, John was a member of the current Mayor of London’s London Finance Commission, the previous Mayor’s Infrastructure Delivery Board and is a member of the King’s College Commission on London.

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.

Peter is Arcadis’ London City Executive, accountable for key activity in the UK’s capital. He also leads for Arcadis on Place-making. A Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with 24 years’ industry experience he has a keen understanding of how to align built and natural assets to the vision, strategy and key priorities of our clients. He has a particular interest in creating successful cities. Peter has been involved in some of London’ biggest infrastructure programmes of recent years including the Jubilee Line Extension, St Pancras International Station and Heathrow’s Terminal 5.

Meeta is a UK qualified lawyer and chartered town planner. She specialises in large scale mixed-use redevelopment and regeneration schemes, including urban extensions, both in London and across the country. She advises on all aspects of planning and associated areas, including highways, compulsory purchase, CIL, heritage, affordable housing and scheme viability, on both the contentious and non-contentious side. Before Town, Meeta spent 12 years at King & Wood Mallesons (previously SJ Berwin) and before that was a planning officer at Westminster City Council. Meeta is vice chair of the board of trustees of the Royal Town Planning Institute, a non-executive Director of Public Practice and an advisory board member for Women in Planning.

Mike is a chartered town planner with over 40 years’ experience in local government, most of that in London and nearly 14 years at senior officer level. He is a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and formerly president of POS (2013-14). Mike works closely with government and across the sector to shape planning in England. In 2015 he set up his consultancy, Mike Kiely planning + regeneration, to specialise in assisting local authorities to perform better and be more effective.

Paolo Nistri is the Head of Inclusive Growth, Skills and Social Value at the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC). Having worked at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in its various guises since 2007, at the LLDC he heads up the team that is ensuring that the physical regeneration of the Park creates social, economic and educational benefits for all. Paolo has led on a number of high profile initiatives at the Park over the years, including driving the payment of the London Living Wage to all workers, ensuring the LLDC uses its buying power to drive the highest standards of social value delivery through procurement and, working in partnership with Transport for London and The Skills Centre, has recently launched Build East, a purpose-built construction training centre that is working with partners across the sub-region to develop and deliver a programme of employer-led green skills training provision.

Paul is responsible for managing the day-to-day performance of the Belgravia portfolio as well as delivering Grosvenor's 20 year vision for this part of the London estate. He has previously held roles in investment, asset management and portfolio management across Grosvenor Europe. Prior to becoming Location Director in July 2017, he was Portfolio Manager of the London estate. Between 2010 and 2015, he managed three cross-border retail funds on behalf of various international investors, during which time he also set up Grosvenor’s Stockholm Office. Paul is a Scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge. He holds an MSc in Real Estate Investment and Finance from the University of Reading. He is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Board Member of Victoria Business Improvement District and a Non-Executive Director of Ravensbourne University London.

Jules Pipe is working on key priorities for the Mayor, including: implementation of the London Plan, major and community-led regeneration projects across the capital, building a skills system that properly addresses the needs of Londoners and the economy, and ensuring London’s infrastructure supports good growth, meets the needs of London’s communities and makes London a cleaner, greener and smarter City. Jules has unrivalled knowledge of London government, becoming the first directly elected mayor of Hackney in 2002 and serving as Chair of London Councils from 2010 until he joined the Mayor’s team in 2016.

Tim is a partner level development manager with twenty-eight years’ experience in the planning, management and implementation of major development projects on behalf of local government. He leads the Arcadis housing and placemaking services for local authorities, with a particular focus on realising value from Council assets. As a development manager, he has an extensive track-record of establishing project feasibility and viability and developing effective delivery vehicles for his local government clients.

Lesley Roberts is President of the UKAA and a Partner at Allsop specialising in build to rent. With 15+ years of UK PRS experience, her expertise incorporates all facets of large-scale residential portfolio performance including product suitability, design, lettings, management, operations and strategic asset management. She has contributed to both the British Property Federation (BPF) and Urban Land Institute (ULI), having toured the US studying their multi-family model and heavily involved with the second edition of the ULI’s ‘Build to Rent Guide’. Lesley is an active member of Women in Property, supporter of Real Estate Balance and until recently Chair of Soho Housing Association.

Elaine heads the UK office research team at JLL, which provides advice to clients on recent trends and the outlook for the UK office market. Her role is to develop the office content and insight platform, feeding into JLL’s UK office leasing and capital markets business and to work with clients to develop their strategies. Since joining JLL in 2018, Elaine has co- authored a number of insight papers including Disruption or Distraction- Where next for the UK flex market, the future of office demand in London and the future of office demand in the UK which both assessed the impact of the pandemic on the office market. Elaine is the past chair of the British Council of Offices research committee (2017-2021), where she had responsibility for providing a strategic overview of the BCO's research agenda.

Paul Stephen is the Principal and Chief Executive of Newham College, a general Further Education College that supports around 10,000 local students a year develop the skills, confidence and qualifications to get great local jobs or progress to university. Paul has led a number of collaborative projects with employers to build a talent pipeline to help local people access sustainable jobs. Examples include Health Futures, a collaboration with Barts NHS Trust, to support both recruitment of new staff and upskill existing employees; and the London City Institute of Technology (IoT), to build higher level skills in transport, low carbon and the built environment. Paul has worked in the FE sector for 12 years, prior to which he was a Corporate Finance partner at Deloitte LLP.

Craig is a Board Director at DP9 and has over 20 years of planning experience in the private sector. His experience is wide ranging but has focused on strategic plans and large-scale regeneration and masterplanning projects in London. Craig has played a critical and lead role in achieving planning permissions for some of London’s most significant development proposals. This has included Battersea Power Station and Earls Court. Currently he is leading the planning strategy and advice for Brent Cross Cricklewood Regeneration (for Argent Related), Wood Wharf (for Canary Wharf Group), and the over-station development masterplan at Euston (for Lendlease).

Sheila Weeden is Head of Policy and Programmes at the Local London sub-regional partnership, which spans eight boroughs in north east and south east London. She has worked in education and skills for over 25 years, for local government, in higher education and for a government funding agency. A primary focus of her work is building cross-sector partnerships to reduce social and economic inequality.