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

Executive Director – Inclusive Growth
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

Philip Graham is Executive Director for Good Growth at the Greater London Authority, where he leads the Mayor’s economic, environmental and cultural programmes, as work on London’s spatial development through oversight of the London Plan and wider work on regeneration and the built environment. Prior to joining the GLA, he was the founding Chief Executive of the National Infrastructure Commission from 2015-19, during which time he led its establishment as an independent arms-length body and delivered the UK’s first ever cross-cutting National Infrastructure Assessment.  Before that, he worked across a range of policy areas in the civil service, including leading Sir Howard Davies’ review of airport capacity in the UK and leading the early development of the government's high-speed rail strategy.

Imogen Thompson

Executive Director
Urban Land Institute

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.

Selina Mason

Director of Masterplanning
Lendlease

Selina Mason is an Architect and masterplanner who is responsible for delivering high quality design and masterplanning across Lendlease’s UK and Europe urban regeneration portfolio. Currently she is also Development Director on Smithfield Birmingham. Selina also has an Honorary Fellowship from RIBA and she is a Design Council Ambassador and was recently appointed by the Government to the Urban Centre Recovery Task Force.

Vivienne King

Founder, Impactful Places
Revo, Board Member

Vivienne King

Founder, Impactful Places

Vivienne King is an independent advisor specialising in strategic support to the real estate industry in achieving its positive impact potential. Vivienne has held leadership positions in real estate for more than 30 years, with a strong focus on retail and ESG throughout. 

Prior to founding Impactful Places in 2024, Vivienne was Head of Real Estate at The Good Economy, CEO of Revo, Soho Housing Association and Soho Ltd and for over 20 years with the Crown Estate, as General Counsel and member of its Executive Committee.

 Vivienne chairs the Shopkeepers Campaign for business rates reform; she is non-executive board member of Revo; a co-founder of real estate DEI organisation, Real Estate Balance; a LandAid Patron and Executive Vice President of the Story of Christmas charity. 

 In 2023, Vivienne was inducted into the Property Week Hall of Fame for her work in the real estate industry.

Nabeel Khan

Corporate Director - Climate & Inclusive Growth
London Borough of Lambeth

Nabeel leads the Growth Directorate at the London Borough of Lambeth, where his focus is on building a thriving, inclusive, and sustainable local economy. With extensive experience working alongside senior policymakers and politicians, he specialises in urban development, climate action and placemaking strategies that drive growth and reduce inequality. In his current role, he oversees a broad portfolio and a development programme with a GDV of over £1 billion. Before joining Lambeth, he worked for the Mayor of London and worked on major regeneration projects at various stages in their development cycle, ranging from negotiating commercial development agreements to help unlock key regeneration sites for new housing estates and schools to working on the land assembly of a £1bn mixed-use shopping centre redevelopment scheme.