Kelsey Walker

Conference chair and Director, Savills Affordable Housing Consultancy

Kelsey is a director in Savills affordable housing consultancy team. She leads the strategic governance range of consultancy, including in depth assessment readiness; governance, risk and board effectiveness reviews; regulatory recovery and lessons learned; consumer standards reviews; partnership and merger support.

Kelsey joined Savills in September 2018 and has an in depth knowledge of the expectations of good governance. In her nine years at the Regulator of Social Housing, Kelsey was part of the senior leadership group and led a team working with large and complex housing providers assessing their performance against the economic standards. Kelsey helped develop the regulatory approach including in-depth assessments.

Prior to joining the Regulator, Kelsey was Business Assurance Director for a London-based housing association.