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.

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.

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

Gary Cookson
Director / multi-published author, EPIC

Andrew Corbett-Nolan
Chief Executive, Good Governance Institute

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

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.

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.

Anna Keast
Director of People and Governance, Local Space

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.

Kerry Peach
Home Group

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.

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

Harriet Rushton
Company Secretary, Eastlight Community Homes

Christopher Smith
Director, Savills

Emma Stone
Assistant Director of Housing, Watford Community Housing

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.