Martyn Chase BSc FRICS is Chairman of Retail, DTZ, for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
He was formerly Chairman of Donaldsons, which merged with DTZ in July 2006. He was previously head of Shopping Centre Investment and Development. Prior to that he was head of Local Authority Consultancy, a business he built up to become market leader, according to independent survey.
2008 sees the opening of a number of landmark projects which Martyn has been involved, including Victoria Square Belfast (Multi Development) and Highcross Leicester (Hammerson).
Martyn is President of BCSC. He holds a number of other voluntary positions including Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, member of Business in the Community London Leadership Team and Court Member of the Worshipful Company of Needlemakers.
Martyn is married with three children. In his spare time he is a keen sailor and member of the Royal Ocean Racing Club, Ocean Cruising Club and Bosham Sailing Club.
George Davies Fashion Visionary and founder of per una,
Next and George at Asda
George Davies, is the fashion visionary who founded 'Next' in the eighties and 'George at Asda' in the nineties. per una is his fashion collection for the new millennium. Launched in September 2001, the collection is available exclusively from over 230 Marks & Spencer stores.
Being passionate about fashion and style, per una symbolises everything that George wants to achieve for his clothing collection, this includes the three hearts logo which was inspired by a postcard he saw on holiday.
With Italy being a major influence in feel, quality and studio location, per una simply means for 'one woman' in Italian. The collection is all about a fashion attitude with a lifestyle appeal and this is a range that appeals to women of all ages and tastes. Women want a wearable wardrobe that is easy to piece together but has a high fashion look. per una is that collection.
George has invested his personal wealth in the project and says, 'per una is a bit of an obsession for me really but I truly love it. The work is something that I just have to do- its something I live for rather than just do.'
Miles Gibson,
Deputy Director - Planning Economics and Social Policy, Department for Communities and Local Government
Miles Gibson has recently been appointed as a Deputy Director within CLG's Planning Directorate where he leads the Economic and Social Policy Division. He has responsibility for key Planning Policy Statements such as PPG2 (Green Belt), PPS3 (Housing), PPS4 (economic development) and PPS6 (Town centres), and also for the development and implementation of the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL). Miles worked for HM Treasury from 1999 to 2003, mainly on public spending, housing and planning reform. After two years as a Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, and Policy Adviser within 10 Downing Street covering public finances, housing, planning, and local government, Miles returned to HM Treasury to work on property tax issues including Planning Gain Supplement (PGS), Real Estate Investment Trusts, Stamp Duty Land Tax, business rate supplements and other local taxation issues arising from the Lyons Inquiry into Local Government.
He has also worked for Liverpool City Council on its Estate Action programme, and as a policy officer for the Town and Country Planning Association. He is a qualified town planner and also has a degree in architecture.
Sir Stuart Hampson,
Former Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership,
Chairman, Business Action on Economic Renewal Leadership Team
Sir Stuart Hampson became the John Lewis Partnership's fourth Chairman in February 1993.
Sir Stuart joined the Partnership in February 1982 and, after gaining retail experience in a number of department stores, he ran the Partnership's department store in Southampton, Tyrrell & Green (now John Lewis Southampton), as Managing Director for nearly three years.
In 1986 he was appointed to the Partnership's Central Board as Director of Research & Expansion and took charge of the Partnership's development programme. He was responsible for the first out-of-town John Lewis department store at High Wycombe (opened October 1988), as well as for new department stores at Aberdeen (October 1989) and Kingston (September 1990) and the relocation of Trewins in Watford (August 1990). The Deputy Chairmanship was added to his Partnership responsibilities in May 1989.
Sir Stuart has taken an active interest in planning policy and, as a founding member in May 1987 of the Oxford Retail Group, was closely involved in the debate on town centre/out-of-town development.
A Civil Service career for 12 years: the first part of Sir Stuart's career was spent in the Civil Service. He joined the Board of Trade in 1969, then served for two years in the UK Mission to the United Nations in Geneva
In 1978 he was appointed Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection, Mr Roy Hattersley, in which post he was particularly concerned with pay, prices and mergers policy. On the change of Government in 1979 he was successively Private Secretary to the Minister for Consumer Affairs (then Mrs Sally Oppenheim) and the Secretary of State for Trade (then Mr John Nott) where he was closely concerned with general economic policy and that Department's special interest in export promotion and competition policy. Subsequently he served Mr John Biffen, Secretary of State in the same department.
In April 1981 he was promoted to Assistant Secretary and assigned to the team under Sir Derek Rayner which examined aspects of the efficiency of the Civil Service. His project dealt with personnel management in the Department of Trade and Industry.
London First: Sir Stuart was a founding Deputy Chairman of London First, the private/public sector partnership aimed at maintaining London's standing as a world-class capital (October 1992-December 1997).
Royal Society of Arts: Sir Stuart was a member of the RSA Inquiry into Tomorrow's Company: The Role of Business in a Changing World, and became a director of the Centre for Tomorrow's Company in 1996, and Chairman in 1998/99. He was elected to the Council of the RSA in 1995, served as Treasurer in 1997 and Chairman of the Society from May 1999-October 2001.
Royal Agricultural Society of England: President of the Society, 2005/06.
Honours: Sir Stuart was made a Knight Bachelor in the Queen's Birthday honours 1998. In 2001 he was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at St John's College, Oxford, from where he took his first degree (in modern languages) in 1969. He received an honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from Kingston University in January 1998, and from Southampton Solent University in November 2001.
Background and family: Sir Stuart was born in January 1947. He and his wife, Angela, have two grown up children. They live in Buckinghamshire.
Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine was born in 1933. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics. In 1986 he became an Honorary Fellow of the College. In 1954 he was President of the Oxford Union. In 1959 he did his National Service and was commissioned into the Welsh Guards.
Until the late 1960s, Mr Heseltine helped to create the Haymarket Media Group, which is now one of the largest independent magazine companies in the country with extensive interests overseas. He rejoined the Board of Directors on leaving Government in 1997 and became Chairman in March 1999 on the retirement of Lindsay Masters.
Mr. Heseltine contested the Gower constituency in 1959 and Coventry North in 1964. In 1966 he was elected for Tavistock, Devon until 1974. Following the redistribution of the Tavistock constituency, he represented Henley from 1974 to 2001.
Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Transport in June 1970, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of the Environment in November 1970 and Minister for Aerospace in April, 1972. He was Opposition spokesman on industry from June 1974 until November 1976 when he became Opposition spokesman on the environment.
From May 1979 until January 1983, he was Secretary of State for the Environment. His responsibilities there included the sale of council houses and the implementation of inner city policy, particularly in the aftermath of the Toxteth riots in 1981. He laid the foundations for the world's largest inner city regeneration project in London Docklands. He became at that time and remains a Member of the Privy Council. He was appointed Secretary of State for Defence in January 1983 and played a central role in defeating the unilateral nuclear disarmament campaign of the mid-1980s. He resigned from the Cabinet in January 1986.
In late 1990 he challenged Mrs. Thatcher for the leadership of the Conservative Party. She resigned and Mr. Heseltine joined John Major's Cabinet as Secretary of State for the Environment. After the 1992 General Election he served as President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry until July 1995, when he was appointed First Secretary of State and Deputy Prime Minister - a post which he held until April 1997.
After the 1997 election he became Chairman of Conservative Mainstream, an umbrella organisation whose main objective is to stimulate a wide ranging debate as to the nature of the centre ground of politics and formulate Conservative principles and policies designed to appeal to the broad mass of the British electorate.
His first book, Where There's a Will, was published in March 1987 and his second, The Challenge of Europe: Can Britain Win? in May 1989. His political autobiography, Life in the Jungle, appeared in September 2000.
In 1998 the Prime Minister invited him to become the U.K. Chairman of the U.K./China Forum, a high level, non-Governmental advisory group.
In May 1989 he was created an Honorary Fellow of Leeds Metropolitan University, in 1990 an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool University, in July 2001 an Honorary Fellow of the University College of Swansea and in September 2003 he was presented with the award of Honorary Doctor of Business Administration by the University of Luton.
He was created a life peer in July 2001 taking the title Baron Heseltine of Thenford, in the County of Northamptonshire.
Lord Heseltine was a Millennium Commissioner. He was elected a Vice-President of the Motor and Allied Trades Benevolent Fund (BEN) in September 2001. From 2000 until 2004 he was President of the Quoted Companies Alliance and from 2005 to 2008 was President of The Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Amongst other awards he has been presented with the Publicity Club of London Cup (2005), National Business Awards' Lifetime Achievement Award (2005), the PPA Marcus Morris Award which recognises an exceptional career and outstanding contribution to the UK magazine industry (2003), Fellow of The 48 Group Club in recognition of outstanding contribution to relations with China (2003), Gold Medallist of the Institute of Sheet Metal Engineering (1999) and the Institute of Public Relations' Presidents Medal (1998). He was made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1991.
Lord Heseltine is also an enthusiastic gardener and is creating an arboretum to house his collection of over 3000 different trees and shrubs.
David Higgins
Chief Executive,
Olympic Delivery Authority, London 2012
David Higgins was appointed Chief Executive Designate of the Olympic Delivery Authority in December 2005 and appointed Chief Executive with effect from 30 March 2006.
Prior to December 2005, he was Chief Executive of English Partnerships, the Government's national regeneration agency, for three years.
He graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of Sydney and holds a Diploma from the Securities Institute of Australia.
Following graduation, he spent time working in the UK and Africa, returning to Australia in 1981 and joined the Lend Lease Group, an international property and construction company, in 1985.
In 1995, he was appointed Managing Director and Group Chief Executive of the Group.
Paul Hudson,
Director of Delivery, Thames Gateway Executive and Former Chief Planner, Communities and Local Government
Paul began his career with Kent County Council and held a variety of posts in the Planning Department, rising to Assistant Director of Economic Development. After a period with the Travers Morgan Consulting Group in Cambridge, in 1991 he became the City Technical Director for Rochester upon Medway City Council before moving in 1998 to become Chief Executive of Locate in Kent.
He took up the post of Executive Director: Development and Infrastructure for the South East Development Agency in 1999, and led the Agency's physical development, urban renaissance, housing and transport programmes, including major projects such as Chatham Maritime in the Thames Gateway growth area.
He joined the Department of Communities and Local Government in 2006 as Chief Planner, and became Director of Delivery in the Thames Gateway Executive in 2008.
James Jones became Bishop of Liverpool in 1998 having been Bishop of Hull since 1994. Over the last fourteen years he has been deeply involved in Urban Regeneration. For four years he chaired the New Deal for Communities programme in Liverpool (Kensington Regeneration) and has championed community-led regeneration in lectures, newspaper articles and broadcasts. 45% of the parishes in the Diocese of Liverpool are Designated Priority Areas.
He chairs the Governing Body of the faith-based St Francis of Assisi City Academy jointly sponsored by the Roman Catholic and Anglican Dioceses. It is the first Academy to take the Environment as its specialism. It opened to its first pupils in September 2005. This date also marks the beginning of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
He lectures widely and broadcasts regularly on 'Thought for the Day'. He has written a number of books including 'Jesus and the Earth' (SPCK 2003) which looks at the relationship between Christianity and the environment.
Working in partnership with other faiths and a number of agencies including the RDA for the North West he has set up Faiths4Change which is an organisation working across the faith communities engaging local people in the holistic transformation of their local environment. Quoting the African proverb "We have borrowed the present from our children" he believes that young people are much more alert to the need to create cleaner, safer and greener communities.
He believes that there is a real tension between community-led regeneration and programmes that are centrally driven. He feels that these tensions are often revealed in the language that is used. People living in local communities tend to use organic language such as "seeds, planting and renewal"; those who control the money tend to use mechanical language such as "triggers, buttons, levers and targets". He is convinced that you cannot have mechanical solutions to organic problems and that those with the money and the power need to understand more fully how communities die and live again.
He is a member of the House of Lords, Bishop for Prisons, Chair of the Council of Wycliffe Hall in the University of Oxford, Co-President of Liverpool Hope University, Adjunct Professor of Liverpool Hope University teaching an MA on theology and the environment, a Vice President of Tear Fund, WWF Ambassador and a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce).
Sir Terry Leahy, who is 52, was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco PLC in March 1997. He received a Knighthood for services to food retailing in the 2002 New Year Honours.
Born on 28 February 1956, he was educated at St Edwards College, Liverpool and then went on to the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology where he gained his BSc (Hons) in management sciences.
Terry joined Tesco in 1979 as a Marketing Executive and was promoted to Marketing Manager in 1981. From 1984 to 1986 he held the position of Marketing Director for Tesco Stores Ltd. He was appointed Commercial Director of Fresh Foods in 1986. Appointed to the Board of Tesco PLC as Marketing Director in 1992, and was appointed Deputy Managing Director in February 1995.
He is a Director on the Liverpool Vision Regeneration Board, and
Co-Chancellor of Manchester University.
Married with three children, Terry enjoys sport, reading, theatre and architecture in his spare time.
Sir Richard Leese CBE
Leader, Manchester City Council
Born, brought up and went to school in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. After graduating from the University of Warwick, worked as a teacher in Coventry and as an exchange teacher in the USA before moving to Manchester to take up a post as a youth worker. Employed variously in youth work, community work, and education research 1979-1988. Elected to the City Council in 1984. Deputy Leader from 1990 to 1996 having previously Chaired the Education Committee (1986-90) and Finance Committee (1990-95).
Political interests include the links between economic development and social policy, developing open democracy and the community leadership role of local authorities; and the role of cities in creating a sustainable future.
Heavily involved in regeneration activity including being on the board of the East Manchester Urban Regeneration Company. Chair of Manchester Airport Group's Shareholders' Committee.
Interests outside politics include cinema, music, and sport as a spectator (principally football and cricket), a regular swimmer and cycling to the Town Hall most days.
Professor Phil Redmond CBE
Deputy Chair and Creative Director,
Liverpool Culture Company
Best known for creating three of Britain's longest running drama programmes, Grange Hill (30 yrs); Brookside (21 yrs) and Hollyoaks (11yrs). He has written extensively for radio, television and stage and is currently a regular columnist for the Liverpool Daily Post.
One of the first 2% to go through the comprehensive system Phil is now proud that in 1989 he was awarded Honorary Chair of Media at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). Since 1993 he has been a Fellow and Member of the Board of Trustees, as well as Chairing the International Centre for Digital Content (ICDC) also based at LJMU.
A founder member of the first regional branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in Manchester; a council member of the Independent Producer's Association (IPPA) and a former national negotiator for the Writer's Guild of Great Britain (WGGB).
In 1996, Phil was elected as Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and in 1997 he was also appointed Vice Chair of the newly created North West Film Commission and became a Patron of the Commission in July 1999.
He was awarded a CBE in June 2004 for 'services to drama' in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
Throughout 2005 he was Chair of the Merseyside Entrepreneurship Commission and is currently Patron of the Merseyside Hub for Enterprise Insight.
In June 2005, Phil and Alexis Redmond sold Mersey Television, at the time still Britain's largest independent drama production house employing over 500 people and "downsized" to a small film production company. One of the acknowledged strengths of Mersey TV was its links to and support of education and culture. In 1998, Brookside became an integral part of the National Year of Reading through the Brookie Basics literacy clinics.
He joined Liverpool's Capital of Culture Board in November 2006 and became Deputy Chair and Creative Director in September, 2007 which he described as taking on the organisation of a "typically Scouse wedding"!
Phil and Alexis Redmond have long standing links and are major benefactors of National Museums Liverpool, as well as Liverpool John Moores University and the Open Culture project for 2008, an alliance of the ICDC and local media partners.
Cllr Mike Storey CBE DL
Former Leader, Liverpool City Council
and Deputy Lord Mayor
Councillor Mike Storey is Deputy Lord Mayor of Liverpool. He was elected to Liverpool City Council in 1973, and is the longest serving Councillor on the City Council. Mike was awarded the OBE for political services in 1992 and CBE for services to Regeneration in 2002.
He became youngest Chair of Education in the history of Liverpool from 1980 - 1983 and also Deputy Leader of the Council during this period. Mike was the Leader of the Liberal Democrat Opposition 1991-1998. He became Leader of Liverpool City Council in May 1998 and stepped down from this position in 2006. Mike served as Executive Member for Regeneration from 2007 to 2008.
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