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Annual Review 2023

Anthony Bickmore Jon Irvine

Anthony is a widely experienced property Jon joined the Board of Trustees in September 2019.
professional and Chartered Surveyor who has worked Jon is an experienced Chartered Surveyor who has
at the interface of the public and private sectors for worked for Homes England (previously the Homes
over 25 years, setting strategy and taking and Communities Agency) since 2004 in a number of
responsibility for delivery. He has worked across most roles including management of the agency’s
sectors of the market and has substantial experience Commercial Joint Ventures and leading the
of property development and major urban renewal Development and Disposals teams. Jon currently
projects. leads the Contingent Assets and Liabilities and
Commercial Disposals Team dealing with the
He was Director of Urban Estates for The Crown resolution of historic land and property matters
Estate, Head of Property for Transport for London. He alongside disposals of the agency’s non-core and
subsequently worked as Commercial Director in the commercial land.
Cabinet Office’s Government Property Agency as
Commercial Director. He has a range of other
business and community leadership roles. Dr Nick Taylor-Buck
Nick was appointed to our Board of Trustees in
Dr Louise Brooke-Smith December 2019.
Nick is the Research Manager for the Faculty of
Louise is a Chartered Surveyor and Chartered Town Science at the University of Sheffield. He previously
Planner and was appointed to the Board in December worked on the ‘Realising Just Cities’ project, helping
2019. She has over 30 years commercial experience to co-ordinate the programme of work and the
across the land, property and construction sectors, design, delivery and evaluation of co-production
within the UK and overseas, inter alia, establishing a projects across two-city regions in the North of
national planning consultancy. Arcadis acquired her England. He has a PHD in the natural sciences and is
company in 2017 when Louise became a Partner and also a qualified Chartered Surveyor.
UK Head of Development & Strategic Planning.

She stepped down from the Partnership in 2019 to Nick McLeod-Clarke
take up a number of Non-Executive Directorships and Investment Committee Chair
international advisory positions. She had previously
served as RICS Global President (2014-15). Nick spent over 31 years working for several asset
management organisations, the last 17 years as a
In June 2019 Louise was awarded an OBE for Managing Director with BlackRock, currently the
services to the built environment and to diversity and world’s largest asset manager. Nick spent almost all
inclusion – recognition for her passion for equality of his career as a fund manager specialising in UK
across the land, property and construction industries. Equities. In addition to a BA in Economics, he also
She is a Freeman of the City of London; was named has a Masters Degree in Finance from the London
as National Construction Achiever (2015) and holds Business School. Nick chairs the Investment
Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Committee and also sits on the Audit Committee.
Wolverhampton, Sheffield Hallam and Birmingham
City. As well as his work with the Land Trust, Nick is also a
member of the Investment Committee of the Nursing
and Midwifery Council.

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