Angela is Chief Executive of North Star Housing Group based in the North East. She has worked for housing associations for over thirty years and is very committed to working with communities to bring about positive change. Angela is very involved in regional and national housing policy.

Will is the Chair of Trustees for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). He has spent his career developing and delivering a wide range of social policies in Northern Ireland. These focused on educational achievement, social deprivation and discrimination, in particular.

Deborah is a trustee for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). She is Chief Executive at the West Midlands Combined Authority.

David is a trustee for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). He is the CEO of the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation in west London.

Paul is a trustee for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). He is the Chief Executive of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. It is a specialist mental health trust. It focusses on psychological, social and developmental ways to understand and treat emotional disturbance and mental ill health. It also promotes mental health.

Dan is an experienced property professional and is Executive Director of Property at Aspire Housing in North Staffordshire. Dan has also worked on regeneration programmes for a Local Authority and spent several years in the United States developing town centre regeneration schemes. His motivation comes from revitalising neighbourhoods and communities and seeing the positive difference this makes to the lives of residents.

Dan is Director of Operations for MHA, the UK’s largest charitable provider of care and support for older people.

Alistair is a qualified accountant and project manager with significant experience of major change programmes across Government including the Universal Credit programme and the upgrade of the DWP Resource Management System.

Gillian is a senior finance partner at Deloitte. She sits on the Government and Public Sector industry and Risk Advisory Executives and leads Deloitte’s work in the education sector.