Advisory Group

Lord Andrew Mawson is a leading British social entrepreneur. He became Chairman of Well North Enterprises in 2019 following the success of the Well North programme, which Andrew led from 2015 – 2019. This was a Public Health England initiative which brought together the public and private sectors, and local communities to improve the health of people living in some of the most deprived parts of the North of England. Well North has now evolved into 360 Degree Society, a social business driving a national mission to put people at the heart of places and create health and wealth outcomes for communities across the UK. So far, the 360 Degree Society team has grown 15 Innovation Platforms across the country. Andrew is perhaps best known for founding the Bromley-by-Bow Centre in East London, the first working example of a fully integrated primary health care facility in the country. The centre today has over 287 staff, 97 businesses it has built with local people, and is responsible for 55,000 patients across Poplar. The centre is visited by over 2000 people a year from across the country and internationally. The 360 Degree Society has grown out of this 40-year track record and is now taking the principles originally developed at the Bromley by Bow Centre and working with partners to apply them in challenging communities across the country. Andrew, also founded Community Action Network (CAN) in 1997, a national programme for social entrepreneurs, Poplar Harca (one of the country's first housing companies) and Leaside Regeneration Ltd, which brought in over £100 million investment into the Lower Lea Valley. Andrew has now “graduated” from most of these ventures and each of them continues as a successful organisation. Through 360 Degree Society and Andrew Mawson Partnerships, Andrew works alongside a leading national thinkers, entrepreneurs and doers to grow and replicate his approach and successes including the national Science Summer School with Professor Brian Cox. In 2012, Andrew was made a Freeman of the City of London. He is also the author of the book, “The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work.” Andrew’s work is also featured in Lord Crisp’s latest book (former CEO of the NHS) ‘Health is made at home; hospitals are for repair’. ​​Andrew and his partners wrote the first paper proposing that the Olympic Games be brought to East London in 2012. He was involved in the Olympic project for 19 years from day one. He was a Director of the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) and then the London Legacy Development Corporation. Andrew Chaired the Regeneration and Community Partnerships Committee for 10 years on both boards, stepping down in 2018. Since the Games this development corporation has planned, developed, and managed the Olympic Park in East London and is creating a lasting legacy from the 2012 Games. The new £1.1billion East Bank campus development has brought to the Park the Victoria and Albert Museum, University College London, the BBC and Sadlers Wells, the London College of Fashion to name a few. This £1.2 bn project was Andrew and Paul Brickell’s original idea in 2006, which was an attempt to build an Innovation District in the heart of the east end of London based on the Bromley principles, bringing together business and social entrepreneurs. The project was backed by the then Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, when he was Chairman of the London Legacy Development Corporation. ​​Under the AMP banner, Andrew co-founded One Church 100 Uses CIC and launched the Water City Group to create and implement a vision for East London revitalised by the opportunities of the 21st Century and the 2012 Olympic Games. Andrew was made a life Peer in 2007 in recognition of the social impact of his work, and he now sits as an independent Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords. ​

Katie is a specialist in placemaking and large scale regeneration in Deloitte’s Real Estate Advisory team. She is a town planner by training with a strong background in development management and policy work across the UK, and is currently working on major regenerations sites across Manchester. Katie also leads Deloitte’s heritage team, working across the UK and is a member of Historic England’s Places Panel. Katie is able to bring Deloitte’s wider perspective to her work through co-ordinating Deloitte’s wider real estate offer including development advisory, M&A, debt advisory, government and public sector specialists and economic advisory.

Chris Brown is a founder director of the London Doughnut Economy Coalition CIC, helping London to play its part in an economy that ‘delivers society’s needs within the planet’s limits. He is also the founder of Climatise, using blended finance to deliver rewilding, retrofit and renewables. Through Climatise he is a director of fuel poverty and renewables community benefit society SE1 Solar and of retrofit business Future Fit Homes. He was the founder of urban regeneration BCorps igloo Regeneration which co-founded ‘the world’s first responsible real estate fund’ (United Nations). He also co-founded the Chrysalis Fund which lends to job creating workspace and green development projects in Liverpool City Region. Until 2023 he chaired Creative Space and Dataloft (now Pricehubble) and helped management and shareholders execute successful exits.

Julia's work at the TCPA focuses on collaborating with a wide range of partners to help create healthier places. She contributed to 'Putting health into place', the guide to creating healthier new communities, published by NHS England in 2019 and produced through a collaborative partnership between the TCPA, the King’s Fund, the Young Foundation, NHS England, Public Health England, and the ten NHS England Healthy New Towns. In addition, she leads the national Green Infrastructure Partnership, a network of more than 2000 people and organisations working to improve green infrastructure in the UK. Throughout her career she has been interested in the links between the design of the built environment and the quality of people’s lives. Earlier in her career, she was the founding director of CABE Space, the Government's advisor on policy and practice regarding England's urban parks and public spaces. She began her career as a journalist, writing about design, architecture and art. She has a degree in philosophy from UCL.

Prof Ashton was appointed director of public health for Liverpool City Council in April 2020 in a joint appointment with the University of Liverpool, where he is an honorary professor in the Department of Public Health and Policy. He leads a team of 30 people in the local authority, covering a range of public health activities, including the commissioning of public health services, health protection, health improvement, healthcare public health, embedding health in all policies approaches, and addressing the wider determinants of health. Matt led on the response to the Covid-19 pandemic for Liverpool, and his efforts have been recognised nationally through the award of the Faculty of Public Health’s presidential medal in 2021, and also the Chief Medical Officers' National Impact Award in 2022. Matt is passionate about bringing together the best people and partnerships in the region to improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequalities in local communities.

Daniel is a research director specialising in urban development, corporate decision-making, and bridging academic research to real world impact. He is currently based at the Bristol Medical School and co-leads the TRUUD £10m research consortium. Daniel trained originally in economics, then urban design and planning, before specialising in impact assessment methods for large-scale development. He set up his own consultancy, Daniel Black + Associates | db+a, in 2012. Since then, he has led with academic partners a series of successful research bids covering urban planning; public health; corporate decision-making; climate change; food; energy; water; and waste. Having spent over a decade in practice, learning about processes and detail downstream in a range of urban disciplines, including transport, urban design, building construction and community engagement, Daniel now leads research into decision-making that takes place upstream: governance, partnerships, corporate strategy, and risk management.

Antonia joined in November 2021 and is part of the Research and Development team in Impact on Urban Health, working closely with other programmes as well as communications and policy colleagues. In June 2023, she joined the Policy and Influencing team, where she continues to develop on our national and international partnership work. Prior to joining Impact on Urban Health, Antonia was chief executive of Coalition for Efficiency, a small, collaborative charity that supports charity and community leaders to reflect on, measure and manage the impact of their organisation and initiatives. Antonia has close ties with Mexico, where she worked for Semillas, a women’s fund supporting gender justice initiatives.

Sunand Prasad is a principal at Perkins&Will. While designing across several sectors, he has been consistently engaged in healthcare and sustainability for four decades. At the core of his architectural practice, alongside interdisciplinary collaboration, Sunand holds a passionate belief that expertise and aesthetic judgement are most effective in creating truly successful environments when they are catalysed by the everyday experience of people. Sunand has been active in the wider built environment industry, particularly championing low-carbon, regenerative design, and until recently, as chair of the UK Green Building Council. He was president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) from 2007 to 2009, campaigning for action on climate change. He was founding member of the UK Government’s Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment; a London Mayor’s design advocate; a trustee of the Centre for Cities; and chair of the Trustees of Article 25, the humanitarian architecture charity. He currently chairs the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architecture and the External Advisory Board of TRUUD, a major research project on the fundamental links between health and urban development. He has written widely on architecture, sustainability and healthcare design, such as the book 'Changing Hospital Architecture'.

Matthew Morgan is the Director and co-Founder of the Quality of Life Foundation. He is responsible for setting strategy with the Board of Trustees, overseeing the Foundation’s commercial services and delivering lasting impact with the Quality of Life team, itself focused on highlighting the impact of the built environment on people’s lived experience. With over 20 years’ experience in writing and communications, Matthew has previously worked with architects, engineers and developers; in book and magazine publishing; and with charities and start-ups. He is a participant on a number of advisory boards and chairs a multi-stakeholder group that advises on community engagement as part of the UKRI-funded CCQOL (Community Consultation for Quality of Life) project. A published author and mental health advocate, Matthew is particularly interested in how communities are formed and their effects on people’s physical, social and psychological wellbeing, an interest he developed while growing up in an intentional community in Kent.

Dr Zeisel has a background in sociology and architecture. He received a PhD from Columbia University and a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. John’s work at the I’m Still Here Foundation is focused on creating inclusive, community-based arts and culture programming.

Max is Founder & CEO of the LDN Collective, a network of built environment experts and creatives fighting to improve people’s lives and the planet’s prospects. Members are experts in social impact, zero carbon and modern methods of construction as well as architecture, engineering, graphic design and film-making. They are a dynamic and collaborative ‘one stop shop’ for projects anywhere in the world. Current projects include masterplans for garden communities in Oxfordshire, Peterborough and Solihull; new health and wellbeing resorts in London and the South East; detailed planning applications for Clarion, the UK’s largest housing association and #ParkPower – a crowdsourced vision for the future of London’s green spaces. Max’s expertise lies in urban planning & strategic communications. He was a Partner at Farrells for 10 years, the internationally renowned architects with offices in London, Hong Kong and Shanghai, before leaving to set up the LDN Collective. In 2021, Max was appointed Chair of Cultural Co-Location for Creative Estuary. With £4.3m funding from DCMS, as part of the Thames Estuary Production Corridor, the ambition is to transform 60 miles of the Thames Estuary into the most exciting cultural hub in the world. Max was Project Lead and Author of the Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment, commissioned by the UK Government, which made 60 recommendations spanning education, outreach & skills; design quality; cultural heritage; economic benefits & architecture policy, many of which have been implemented. He is an adviser to London National Park City, Urban Design London, the Place Alliance, the Urban Room Network, the National Arts and Place Consortium, Community Consultation for Quality of Life and Wild Streets.

Andreas Markides BSc (Hons) MSc CEng AoU FCIHT FICE is experienced in the planning, design and management of major development projects, urban extensions, and town centre regeneration schemes. He has also been involved in the design and supervision of infrastructure works. His specialist traffic expertise includes traffic impact studies for new development proposals, highway design, development of transport strategies, and expert witness at planning inquiries. In October 2016, he set up Markides Associates, which currently employs more than 30 transport planners and engineers. For three years, he served on the Committee of the Thames Valley branch of the Institution of Civil Engineers and was chairman of that Association (AMG&S) for the period 1989-90. He was president of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) for 2017-18 and is currently a trustee of that Institution. He is also a founding member of the Academy of Urbanism. In 2014, he acted as planning commissioner for the island of Cyprus.

Michael is a chartered town planner and honorary member of the UK Faculty of Public Health. He led the Town and Country Planning Association's 'Reuniting Health with Planning' initiative, producing widely-regarded publications and supporting local authorities on the policy and practice of delivering healthy places through the planning process. At Public Health England (now Office for Health Improvement and Disparities), he provides expert planning input across a number of topic areas. Michael also co-founded the Health and Wellbeing in Planning Network.

Chris is lead of HLM's Custodial, Justice and Defence sector. He is hands-on in many of HLM's flagship projects and a champion of social architecture.

Robert is director of the Urban Design Group, an international membership charity for people concerned about improving the design of cities, towns and villages. He is co-founder of PRIAN, the Public Realm Information and Advice Network, and a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers Municipal Expert Panel.

As director of the Housing Learning and Improvement Network, Jeremy works with policymakers, commissioners and providers of housing, health and social care nationally to improve housing with care choices for older people. Previously, Jeremy was national programme lead for housing at the Department of Health. He is also chairman of the Homes and Communities Agency's Vulnerable and Older People's Advisory Group, and was Inquiry Secretary to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People.