Cllr Claire Holland

Chair, London Councils
Leader, Lambeth Council

Councillor Holland is responsible for setting the overall political and strategic direction for the council; acts as the lead spokesperson and manages external relations including with Government, the Greater London Assembly and local and regional bodies; as well as managing the council’s relations with key stakeholders, partners and investors and holding the council’s Chief Executive to account. 

Councillor Holland chairs the Lambeth Strategic Partnership (LSP) which will implement Lambeth’s ambitious Lambeth 2030: Our Future, Our Lambeth. The LSP brings together key anchor institutions, foundations, businesses and charity sector partners across a variety of sectors, creating a strategic, joint-working approach to delivering the outcomes laid out in Lambeth 2030 and builds our collective voice for Lambeth’s communities and organisations. 

The Leader oversees communications and public awareness campaigns. She is responsible for ensuring the implementation of the Administration’s manifesto commitments and core council strategies, including Lambeth 2030: Our Future, Our Lambeth. She leads on the council’s work to deliver the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and the support to survivors through the Lambeth Children’s Home Redress scheme. 

She also leads on investment and growth in the borough including overseeing delivery of our economic resilience strategy and attracting inward investment across our growth sectors including medical technology and life sciences, digital and creative sectors, and the new low carbon economy. She leads on regeneration schemes across the borough including Growing Brixton’s Rec Quarter, Waterloo, West Norwood, Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea partnership, Waterloo station masterplan and SC1.

Dan Scanlon

President
Brookfield Properties

Dan Scanlon is President of Brookfield Properties, United Kingdom responsible for leading the UK team and a 5-million-square-foot portfolio in London.

He joined Brookfield Properties in 2009 and has been instrumental in the site acquisition and successful delivery of more than 3 million sq ft of office, residential, retail and leisure in London. Before joining Brookfield Properties, Dan managed a series of large-scale construction projects in Melbourne and London, including 5 years in a senior position at Multiplex Construction (acquired by Brookfield in 2007).

 Dan holds a bachelor’s degree of Science in Civil Engineering (honours) from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Michelle May

Director of Socio Economic Regeneration
London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC)

Michelle May has led the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) Socio Economic Regeneration work since its inception in 2012. She is a proud east Londoner who is passionate about the place and its people. Michelle has focussed her efforts on ensuring that the physical development of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park delivers real and lasting benefits for local people, including the design and delivery of a highly innovative education and skills programme, built on Good Growth principles with diverse, local talent at its heart.

Philip Graham

Executive Director, Good Growth
Greater London Authority

Imogen Thompson

Executive Director
ULI

Imogen is the UK Executive Director for Urban Land Institute, a best practice built environment organisation that brings together industry experts to tackle the critical issues of our time. By background, Imogen is an experienced urban planner, specialising in large-scale regeneration projects and complex urban and infrastructure programmes. She has led the business case development, strategic planning programmes, communications strategies, and stakeholder strategies for multi-billion-pound major growth, regeneration, and infrastructure projects, and secured over £1 billion worth of funding/investment in transit-oriented growth strategies and infrastructure bids to enable regeneration and transit-oriented development. 

Eliot Postma

Partner and Group Leader
Heatherwick Studio

Since joining Heatherwick Studio in 2010, Eliot has proven instrumental in delivering innovative designs on numerous high-profile projects that focus on the human experience through form, craft, materiality and sustainability. As a Group Leader, Eliot currently oversees a portfolio of projects that spans the Americas, Europe and Asia. Projects include the transformation of the 14-acre London Olympia site; the Hainan Performing Art Centre in China, which will be home to three performance halls with a seating capacity of 3,800 people; a new mega retail district in the south of Hainan, China; a new school for sustainable design for Universidad Ean in Bogotá, Columbia; and the creation of a major community space and new park at Harley Davidson’s home in Milwaukee, US. 

Past projects include a 3-million[1]square-foot campus for Google in Mountain View, California; the Bund Finance Centre, a 4-million-square-foot mixed-use development in the heart of Shanghai; and the masterplan for the Bombay Sapphire Distillery in Hampshire, which included the restoration of Grade II-listed buildings and the addition of two custom glasshouses, which became the first refurbishment project to have been awarded BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ for sustainability. 

In Eliot’s role as a Group Leader, he is responsible for leading all aspects of a portfolio of projects from concept development through to delivery. Eliot is also part of the studio’s senior management group, guiding business strategy, planning and process. In 2016, Eliot was awarded the RIBA Rising Star award in recognition of his design and leadership skills. Prior to the studio, Eliot previously worked at Fosters + Partners where he was involved with projects including a masterplan for Sydney Harbour, a residential complex in Hong Kong and a commercial tower in Moscow.