Lisa Maunder
Group Director of Governance, BFL

Lisa is a Chartered Company Secretary and Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute. Lisa specialises in governance, risk and regulation in social housing. Her 20 years in the sector have seen her take the helm of a variety of front and back office teams including business intelligence, legal, risk and audit, customer insight, communications, complaints and resident involvement. A proven leader, presenter, recruiter and mentor, Lisa has a passion for building stronger and more diverse boards.

Lola Adedoyin
Head of Governance and Company Secretary, Raven Housing Trust

Lola Adedoyin is Head of Governance at Raven Housing Trust, with responsibility for board and committee governance, regulatory compliance, and organisational assurance. With over 20 years corporate governance experience across different sectors, she brings practical insight into strengthening governance, supporting effective boards, and navigating regulatory expectations.

Moshope Aina
Non-Executive Director, Two Saints

Mo Aina is a non-executive board member and asset manager in the social housing sector, with extensive experience overseeing large property portfolios and supporting effective governance, compliance, and long-term asset performance. He brings a practical, operational perspective to board decision-making, with a strong interest in data literacy, strategic oversight, and delivering sustainable outcomes for residents and organisations alike.

Yvonne Akinmodun
Board Member, Housing for Women

Yvonne Akinmodun is an Executive Career Coach and former senior HR leader with over 25 years’ experience across the UK public, not-for-profit and commercial sectors. She is the founder of Career Coaching Matters and specialises in career development, progression and organisational resilience during periods of change. Yvonne is a current board member of a small housing association and has previously served on housing-sector boards, bringing a strong governance perspective on people, culture and risk. A Fellow of the CIPD (FCIPD), she supports boards and leaders to build confident, future-ready workforces that improve retention, engagement and long-term sustainability.

Elaine Armitage
Assistant Director of People and Property Safety, Together Housing

Elaine Armitage is a Chartered Construction Manager renowned for her dedication to building safety. With four decades of experience in the construction industry, and more than twenty years specialising in social housing, Elaine has observed substantial transformations within the built environment. These changes have strengthened her resolve to ensure that every property is a safe place to call home. She serves as the strategic lead for both Building Safety and Health and Safety at Together Housing, overseeing a wide range of responsibilities including fire, asbestos, legionella, LOLER, and construction safety.

Scott Bache
Lead Product Manager, Housemark

Scott Bache is Lead Product Manager at Housemark, one of the UK housing sector’s leading data and insight companies. He leads the development of digital products that help landlords harness the power of their data to improve services and performance. With a background spanning proptech and social housing, he brings a practical, product-led perspective on what it takes to deliver real value with emerging technology.

Samia Badani
CEO and Founder, The Space and Wellbeing Hub

With over 15 years of experience in the public and social sectors, Samia Badani a strategic leader and influencer who drives social change and wellbeing through effective operations, policy, and advocacy. As the CEO and Co-Founder of The SPACE Health & Wellbeing Hub, I oversee delivering high-quality services to clients across various sectors, ensuring their health and wellbeing needs are met and exceeded. Samia Badani was formerly a Commissioner on post Grenfell Shelter Commission and she has developed successful cross-agencies partnerships which led to the creation of community hubs using an innovative and responsive model of service delivery.

Mel Barrett
Chief Executive, Metropolitan Thames Valley

Mel is Chief Executive of MTVH (Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing) one of the UK’s leading providers of affordable homes to rent and buy. He is a former local authority Chief Executive with extensive experience in the leadership of customer facing services, transformation initiatives, and large-scale regeneration and development projects. Mel became a member of the National Housing Federation Board in September 2025 and is a Trustee of the Whitehall & Industry Group, a charity focused on collaborative cross sector leadership development.

Richard Blakeway
Housing Ombudsman, Housing Ombudsman Service

Richard was appointed as Housing Ombudsman from 1 September 2019. He has extensive experience in the housing sector, with previous roles including Deputy Mayor of London for Housing, chair of the Homes for London board, and a non-executive director of Homes England. During his eight years at the Greater London Authority, Richard was responsible for housing investment and land regeneration programmes. He also led the creation of the first team at City Hall to address rough sleeping, commissioning around £10 million of services each year, as well as the first Social Impact Bond on homelessness.

Richard is a former board member of the Chartered Institute of Housing and has been an election observer in Somaliland and the Ukraine.  He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and sits on the Administrative Justice Council. Richard is also a former chair of the Ombudsman Association and is a board member of the British Library.

Claire Bridges
Director of Governance, Risk and Assurance, Yorkshire Housing

Claire joined Yorkshire Housing in 2025 as Director responsible for governance, risk, data protection, insurance and claims. Following a 20-year career in banking, Claire was excited to make the move into Housing with an ambitious provider at a pivotal time in their transformational strategy delivery (managing a regulatory inspection within a few months of joining was an extra bonus!)

Bethan Buck
External Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation

Bethan has worked for the NHF for eight years, having previously worked for a social enterprise specialising in community development and placemaking for areas undergoing regeneration. As External Affairs Manager for London, Bethan works closely with housing associations across the capital and is responsible for the NHFs offer for smaller housing associations. With significant programme management experience, Bethan is currently working across various specialisms at the NHF including supply and regeneration, building confidence and trust, the Better Social Housing Review, and community cohesion. Bethan also sits on the Advisory Board for the LGBTQ+ Housing Pledge.

Charlotte Burnham
Director of Governance, Risk and Regulatory Compliance, Aster Group

Charlotte has a wealth of governance and regulatory compliance experience, having previously worked in highly complex and heavily regulated organisations both in Local and Central Government. Since working in the social housing sector, Charlotte is now in her fourth regulatory inspection with Aster Group, a South-West housing provider, having previously led Thirteen Group’s triple crown success of C1, G1 V1 Inspection back in March 2025. Prior to Thirteen Group, Charlotte also led Home Group’s G1/V2 regulatory judgement in March 2024, followed imminently by Home Group Scotland’s Regulatory Inspection. Charlotte is a big advocate of good governance, co-regulation, loves embracing change and all things Inspection relate.

Anne Chapman
Assistant Director – Governance, Risk and Compliance and Company Secretary, Golding Homes

Having extensive governance, strategic and legal experience, Anne is the corporate lead for governance and compliance matters and the Company Secretary for housing association, Golding Homes. Anne has held many non-executive board positions and is currently the Vice Chair of Eldon Housing Association, an independent member of the Audit and Risk Committee at the Chartered Institute of Housing and a trustee of the homelessness charity, Porchlight.

Caritas Charles
Senior Policy and Insight and Innovation Manager, Tpas

Caritas has worked in the sector for 24 years in numerous roles at a frontline and strategic level . In his current role he works with Tpas members in informing on and helping to shape national housing policy and ensuring that people who live in social housing have their voices heard. A scrutiny geek he also facilitates the National Scrutiny Club. Keen to bring new ideas in engagement to the sector Caritas has written a guide to using deliberative engagement methods and is currently looking at global engagement best practice.

Debbie Chun
Executive Director of Strategy and Transformation, Saxon Weald

Ruth Cooke
Chief Executive, GreenSquare Accord

Ruth is passionate about the importance of housing and care and support services, having spent virtually her whole career working in and with housing associations. A highly experienced chief executive and finance director, Ruth has held Chief Executive positions at Clarion Housing Group and Midland Heart, followed by two years as Group Chief Executive of GreenSquare. She has also held several senior finance positions.

Ruth has spearheaded major programmes to improve the service delivery of housing associations including the development of new corporate strategy, the transformation of financial and operational performance and the redesign and refocus of customer services. Ruth is dedicated to ensuring that GreenSquareAccord is a brilliant landlord.

Gary Cookson
Director / multi-published author, EPIC

Gary combines deep real-world experience as a senior leader, and as an HR, OD and L&D professional with contemporary research, insight and humour to help organisations build workplaces that genuinely work for their people and their performance. He has led people functions and major transformation across multiple sectors and now runs EPIC-partnering with organisations to improve leadership, culture, capability and organisational health. Gary is a multi-published author, including HR for Hybrid Working(2022), Making Hybrid Working Work(2025) and The Squeezed Middle (2026). He is a recognised voice in the HR/L&D/OD communities, frequently speaking at national and international conferences, contributing to industry publications and being part of the ongoing conversation about leadership, organisational effectiveness and the future of work.

Holly Dagnall
Director of Homes and Wellbeing, Nottingham Community Housing Association

Holly has over 20 years of senior management experience in managing business risk, strategy, quality delivery and operational experience in the Housing, Care and Support sector. She joined NCHA in April 2002 and has worked across a range of specialist supported and registered care home settings in both an operational and strategic lead capacity.

Holly became Director of Housing with Care and Support in April 2016 and in April 2018 took on the role of Director of Homes and Wellbeing bringing together NCHA’s specialist housing, care and support teams with social, affordable and submarket rent homes. Holly’s passion has always been social justice and she is a proud advocate of Supported Housing as both a platform for growth and independence and a safety net for those who need it.

Arturo Dell
Associate Director, Azeus UK

Arturo Dell is a leading data governance expert in the Housing Sector. With over 20 years of experience working with local government and housing associations, he has been at the forefront of development within the community.

Kate Dodsworth
Chief of Regulatory Engagement, Regulator of Social Housing

Kate started her career in housing 30 years ago in homelessness, working with rough sleepers in Birmingham and later managing homeless hostels in Brighton. After completing a Masters degree in Housing, she worked at the National Housing Federation for 10 years; latterly as Assistant Director covering London, the South East and East of England. She was Executive Director of People and Communications at Amicus Horizon and, post-merger, as Optivo. Kate was Chief Executive of Gateway Housing Association for three years until starting as Director of Consumer Regulation at the Regulator for Social Housing in July 2021. In 2023, she was appointed Chief of Regulatory Engagement at RSH.

Kate Elder
Director of Governance, Regulation and Business Assurance, Accent Group

Susan Faridi
Chief Executive, Eldon Housing

Susan has over 30 years’ experience working in social care and supported housing, working for local authorities, charitable organisations, and housing associations. Susan has extensive leadership experience in supported, sheltered, and extra-care housing and development. She also has wide-ranging experience in charity management and governance. Prior to Susan’s current role as the Chief Executive for Eldon Housing Association and Chair of Hornsey Housing Trust, she was the Chief Executive for The Finchley Charities, a registered provider and Almshouse charity, providing sheltered housing and grant giving to community and charitable groups as well as to individuals in hardship. Before this, Susan was the Director of Services at Stoll, a military charity and housing association providing supported housing and a range of services to veterans and those transitioning from the British Armed Forces. Susan was also a group Board member and Chair of the Care Board at Hill Homes, a housing association providing sheltered and Extra Care Housing.

Andy Fry OBE
Associate Consultant, Tpas

Andy specialises in strategy, performance improvement and governance, along with having a particular interest in the fields of organisational change and leadership.  He brings a wide range of consultancy experience in the housing sector to his position as an Associate with Tpas, and has an ongoing role in providing independent support to the NHF’s Tenant Advisory Panel.

Maggie Galliers CBE
Chair, National Housing Federation

Maggie has over a decade of non-Executive experience in the education sector, recruiting and performance managing CEO’s and senior executives at both local and national level. Previous to this she worked in education for over 40 years, including 15 years acting as CEO at several colleges. Most recently Maggie has served as chair of The National Learning and Work Institute since 2016 and is Pro Chancellor and Chair of Council for Buckinghamshire New University. She was awarded a CBE in 2009 in recognition of her services to local and national further education.

Adam Gravely
Policy Officer, National Housing Federation

Adam leads the NHF’s policy work on shared ownership and accessible housing, and supports policy development across new housing supply and sector finances. He joined the NHF in 2024. Prior to this, he was a Graduate Trainee and later a People & Purpose Strategist at the John Lewis Partnership, owner of John Lewis and Waitrose. Adam is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Warwick and a Master’s in Business and Management from De Montfort University. Adam grew up in social housing and has lived experience as an involved resident and as a young carer.

Cara Green
External Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation

Cara Green is External Affairs Manager at the National Housing Federation. With a background in communications, strategy and digital innovations, she works closely with members to drive meaningful change with a powerful mission: ensuring everyone has access to a safe, affordable home.

Sarah Greenhalgh
Partner, Bevan Brittan

Sarah is a Partner at law firm Bevan Brittan, specialising in the provision of strategic support and corporate governance advice to housing associations. Sarah’s experience includes mergers, corporate re-structures, new registrations, collaborations and joint ventures, the set-up of diversified structures, and strategic support to Boards. Working with colleagues from within the housing sector, she has been instrumental in establishing networking groups for Senior Independent Directors and Committee Chairs.

Katy Gullon
Chief Governance Officer, Curo

Dan Hawthorn
Executive Director, Homes & Communities, London Borough of Camden

Dan has twenty years’ local government experience, for London boroughs and two Mayors of London, and currently leads Kensington and Chelsea’s work on housing and property. This includes building the borough’s first new council homes in a generation; the development of a new ‘social investment’ approach to municipal assets; and the wider transformation of services, strategy and culture following the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Before that, Dan was Director of Housing, Regeneration and Planning at Haringey Council; Head of the London 2012 team at the Greater London Authority; and former Mayor Ken Livingstone’s senior advisor on planning and development.

Lizzie Hearn
External Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation

Donna Johnson
Chief Executive, Willow Tree Housing Partnership

Donna has spent the last 25 years working in or on behalf of the social sector. Her overriding passion is for truly affordable housing and home ownership, and the crucial role it plays in enabling people who do not have access to the general market to become healthier and wealthier. Experienced in developing, regenerating and managing a diverse range of housing and tenures in both rural and urban environments, Donna remains convinced that the most successful neighbourhoods are those that grow through consensus and a pride in place. This is what drives her commitment to collaboration and listening to deliver better. Her strong value base, belief in the provision of sustainable low cost homes and support for the role that smaller housing associations can play in the broadening of choice, has led to a recent successful set up of a new strategic partnership of two community based providers, South Western Housing Society and Tamar Housing to form WTHP. As CEO, Donna will seek to drive forward the partnerships agenda of building business resilience, achieving greater capacity for growth, achieving value for money efficiencies and delivering better services to tenants and residents.

Anna Keast
Director of People and Governance, Local Space

Zafrin Khan-Wheatley
Director of Financial Strategy, Planning and Performance, L&Q

Zafrin has over 15 years of experience delivering success across the housing, development, statutory, and non-profit sectors. As Director of Financial Strategy, Planning & Performance at L&Q Group, she leads a team of 80+ skilled professionals responsible for financial planning, reporting, and business partnering. She oversees all financial aspects of the business, including a multi-billion-pound asset investment and development pipeline. As a member of L&Q’s Senior Leadership Group, Zafrin works extensively with external stakeholders and serves on multiple joint venture and partnership boards. A strong advocate for equality and diversity, she is an active member of L&Q’s gender equality network, Inspire, and champions inclusion both within and beyond the organization. A published thought leader on housing matters, Zafrin was recognised as Finance Professional of the Year at the 2018 Women in Housing Awards. A proud Londoner and third-generation immigrant, she brings a deep personal commitment to community development and social impact.

Jean Kikaya
Building Safety Case Manager, Clarion

Amanda Leonard
Associate Director, Housemark

Amanda has worked extensively across the sector with Boards and Executive teams, improving organisation strategic planning and performance. She has led resident led co designed governance structure changes and multiple mergers. She also led on the Clarion merger and works with organisations on transformation and growth. Leading the first post Grenfell resident engagement event to consult on the Social Housing White Paper, working with the Cabinet Office and Housing Minister, Amanda is an influential thought leader.

Dave Lingwood
Head of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Phoenix Software

Dave has over 15 years’ experience of working in the public sector in various roles, and has spent the last decade advising public sector clients on how they can improve their cyber security posture through implementing robust and effective governance, risk and compliance (GRC) programmes. He has worked with a diverse portfolio of public sector customers. He is well versed with the housing sector, having previously led on the development of the sector’s first State of Cyber Security Survey, a joint engagement with NHF in 2023, and in March 2025 led on a similar survey around AI. He enjoys working collaboratively with organisations to understand their unique and complex challenges around AI. His team have helped deliver over 50 AI Governance workshops across all areas of the public sector and helped many others with creating robust AI policies and strategies. Dave is a certified ISO42001 Lead Implementer - and was one of the first consultants to pass this internationally renowned AI standard.

Rhys Moore
Executive Director of Public Impact, National Housing Federation

Rhys started with the NHF in October 2018, as Executive Director of Public Impact. Rhys oversees our policy, external affairs and communications work. Previously he was Director of the Living Wage Foundation where he worked with government, business and civil society to build a national movement of responsible employers. Before that, he helped to establish the London Community Foundation, which supports grassroots community groups in the capital. Rhys is a board member of the Carers Trust.

Jo-Anne Morgan
Director of Governance and Regulation, Altair Consultancy and Advisory Services

Jo-Anne Morgan is Director of Governance and Regulation at Altair, where she leads the firm’s governance and regulatory advisory work across the social housing sector. With a background in internal audit and almost 20 years in consultancy, she advises boards and executive and works closely with governance teams on governance effectiveness, regulatory inspection readiness and mergers and acquisitions.

Kerry Peach
Home Group

Gareth Phipps-Williams
Assistant Director for Programme Management, Homes England

Gareth works on policy and strategy for affordable housing. He has come from the Civil Service where he was responsible or working with Ministers on developing the Affordable Homes Programme.

Ben Pumphrey
Legal Director and Head of Data Governance, Anthony Collins

Ben Pumphrey is a Legal Director at Anthony Collins specialising in governance and data responsibility, with extensive experience supporting housing providers on data-led decision making. His work focuses on clarifying data ownership and quality, aligning data use with existing governance frameworks and supporting more transparent, accountable organisations.

Thomas Pyle
AI Workforce Specialist, Phoenix

Sue Ramsden
Policy Leader, National Housing Federation

Sue leads the Federation's policy work on housing management and supported housing.  She is a board member of Thamesreach Housing a small specialist homelessness provider in London.

Michelle Rogerson
Group Director Cyber, Information Security/DPO, Places for People

Michelle Rogerson is Director of Cyber and Information Security and the Data Protection Officer at Places for People. With over 20 years’ experience in the social housing sector, she provides independent oversight of cyber security, information risk and data protection, supporting senior leaders and governance forums to strengthen resilience, improve accountability and protect people, services and organisational trust. An advocate for clear, people‑centred cyber and privacy governance, she is committed to helping the sector make confident and informed cyber risk decisions.

Harriet Rushton
Company Secretary, Eastlight Community Homes

Harriet Rushton is a governance and data protection specialist, currently Company Secretary at Eastlight Community Homes. With a background as a DPO and strong experience in compliance, assurance, and risk. She combines board governance, assurance, and DPO experience to make complex governance frameworks clear, human, and effective.

Christopher Smith
Director, Savills

Christopher is a Director within the Housing Division. He provides a wide range of asset management related advice and support for a diverse group of clients. Christopher joined Savills in 2015 following extensive experience across housing in roles to Managing Director level. His work, for both Local Authority and Housing Association clients across the UK, involves the full range of asset management support and advice services. This ranges from general service reviews to targeted assurance work including specific aspects of landlord compliance, property/assets data management, major/capital works delivery and reactive repairs. In recent years he has focused primarily on landlord compliance and associated data management and has assisted a wide range of clients in strengthening their management of the associated risks. Christopher also played a key role in providing services and support to clients in response to the Building Safety Act 2022. Christopher specialises in the development and delivery of action and improvement plans and has assisted numerous clients to successfully address weaknesses identified in service delivery and performance. His experience includes assisting Providers to address specific issues and return to a compliant governance position following intervention by the Regulator of Social Housing.

Emma Stone
Assistant Director of Housing, Watford Community Housing

Emma began a career in housing in 1992 and has since developed a deep, practice‑based understanding of how to deliver services that genuinely meet the diverse needs of customers. Since joining Watford Community Housing in October 2022 as Assistant Director of Housing, she has bought together local partners to strengthen multiagency collaboration, and provide coordinated, holistic support for residents. Her approach is grounded in a strong grasp of information‑sharing governance, safeguarding responsibilities, and organisational accountability, ensuring that partnership working is both effective and compliant. With more than three decades of sector experience, Emma is known for championing customer‑centred services, fostering resilient community networks, and offering clear, insightful leadership that helps teams and partners deliver meaningful impact.

Joanne Tilley
Executive Director – Corporate Services, EMH Group

Jo is one of the Co-Chairs of the National Housing Federation’s Governance Forum. An Executive Director of emh group, she is also an experienced Board Member and independent member of an Audit Committee, and is a Chartered Member of the CIH.

Michael Verrier
Vice-Chair, G15 Resident Group, G15

David Waddell
Business Journalist and Broadcaster, Committee Member, Poplar Harca

David Waddell is a broadcast news producer and reporter specialising in international business, energy, transport and infrastructure. A member of the Services Committee at Poplar HARCA, he brings a governance lens to complex policy and technology issues. He has interviewed global CEOs, ministers and public figures, and is increasingly focused on helping audiences make sense of rapid developments in AI.

Neil Warren
Executive Director of Resources, Vico Homes

As Executive Director of Resources, Neil has lead responsibility for Finance and Strategic Services and is Vico Homes’ Company Secretary. He has over 40 years of experience in local government and housing, is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and was previously Chief Finance Officer at Wakefield Council. Neil also holds non-executive positions at the Heart of Yorkshire Education Group, the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and the Fund Advisory Panel at the West Yorkshire Pension Fund.

Bethany Weaver
Head of Governance & Deputy Company Secretary, Midland Heart

Beth is Head of Governance at Midland Heart; a Midlands housing provider, providing circa 35,000 quality and affordable homes across the Midlands. Beth started her career in housing working at a homeless charity managing the voids and occupancy for circa 100 bed spaces of supported accommodation across shared housing, private fostering placements and ex-offenders hostels. After a period managing her own franchise of a national health and wellbeing organisation and project managing a team delivering live health and wellbeing shows nationally, Beth returned to social housing in 2020. As part of her current role, Beth supports corporate governance, legal and regulatory compliance, data protection and insurance as well as providing support to the Board and Committees. Beth is passionate about tenant engagement and using customer insights in a meaningful and impactful way to shape service delivery. Beth is also an avid champion for the importance of equality, diversity & inclusion and currently Chairs Midland Heart's colleague EDI Group.

Bryony Willet
Director of Scotland, Home Group

Gavin Wood
Chief Executive, CyberLab

As Chief Executive Officer of CyberLab, Gavin Wood brings over 20 years’ experience across security, cloud operations, telecoms, and software development. He has a proven track record of driving meaningful business transformation through technology. His focus is on pairing technical excellence with clear, practical guidance so organisations can strengthen their cyber security posture with confidence.

Shabana Yousaf
Chair of the Services Committee and the Vice Chair for the Board, Poplar HARCA

Shabana Yousaf has worked in the sector for over 30 years and has been a senior leader for the last 10 years delivering property services, asset management, compliance and building safety services. Shabana has also led on complaints, consumer standards and resident engagement. Currently, Shabana is Chair of the Services Committee and the Vice Chair for the Board at Poplar HARCA overseeing governance and risk.