Governance

The Lord Crisp KCB

Lord Nigel Crisp is an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords where he co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health. He also co-chairs Nursing Now, the global campaign on nursing.

Lord Crisp was instrumental in the TCPA’s recent Campaign for Healthy Homes; leading debates and supporting the agenda in Parliament.

He was previously Chief Executive of the English NHS and Permanent Secretary of the UK Department of Health – the largest health organisation in the world with 1.3 million employees – where he led major reforms between 2000 and 2006.

Lord Crisp is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Medicine. He was formerly a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health and Regent’s Lecturer at Berkeley.

His publications on global health include Turning the world upside down – the search for global health in the 21st Century; Global Health Partnerships; One World Health – an overview of global health after Global Health Partnerships; and, edited with Francis Omaswa, African Health Leaders – making change and claiming the future. He described his time as Chief Executive of the NHS in 24 Hours to Save the NHS – the Chief Executive’s account of reform 2000 – 2006.

A Cambridge philosophy graduate, he worked in community development and industry before joining the NHS in 1986. He has worked in mental health as well as acute services and from 1993 to 1997 was Chief Executive of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust, one of the UK’s leading academic medical centres.

The elected Board of Trustees is legally responsible for managing the TCPA and directing its policy and strategy objectives. The Board meets regularly to carry out its responsibilities with advice from the non-executive Policy Council.

• Andrew Pritchard (Chair)

Since 2010 Andrew has been Director of Policy and Infrastructure at East Midlands Councils, a regional local government association. In this role he supports Transport for the East Midlands (TfEM), the HS2 Growth Partnership. He also supports Midlands Connect on a part time basis.

• Riva Kapoor (Honorary Treasurer)

Riva is a strategy consultant at L.E.K., where she advises corporates and investors on sustainable growth opportunities. She has also served as a vocal advocate for youth placemaking among global networks including PlacemakingX, the Social Life Project and Project for Public Spaces (PPS).

• Aranvir Gawera

Aran works as a Programme Manager in the Climate Emergency Team at the London Borough of Brent. He previously worked at Belfast Healthy Cities focussed on addressing health, placemaking, and inequalities, and as a policy planner at Leicester City Council.

• Robin Smith

Robin has held Chief Architect and Borough Planning officer roles in local government, including London Boroughs and been chief executive of four organisations – two Local Authorities and two Housing Associations.

• Gilian MacInnes

Gilian set up Gilian Macinnes Associates in 2016 after a long career in local government. She advises primarily local authorities, and delivers training, in relation to a range of issues including effective decision making; section 106 and CIL; and affordable housing.

• Sandra Fryer

Sandra has more than 25 years’ planning, regeneration, sustainable development, and director-level experience, mainly in the public sector and for 15 years has run her own business, providing consultancy and interim management.

• Catriona Riddell (Vice Chair)

Catriona is a chartered town planner with extensive experience working within and with local authorities and their partners across England. As Director of Catriona Riddell & Associates, she provides support on a wide range of planning issues but specialises in strategic planning.

• Peter Geraghty

Currently Executive Director at Hertsmere Borough Council he is an experienced practitioner having worked across the public, private and voluntary sectors. He has held senior leadership roles in several local authorities including at Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, Brentwood Borough Council and at Broadland District Council.

• Stuart Andrews

Stuart is a specialist planning lawyer and has been head of the National Planning and Infrastructure Consenting Team at Eversheds Sutherland LLP for over 10 years. He is a dual qualified town planner and solicitor and is both a member of the RTPI and the Law Society Planning Panel.  

• Simin Davoudi

Simin is the sixth holder of Newcastle University Chair of Town Planning at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, and Co-Director of the Centre for Researching Cities.

• Aamina Khan

Aamina works for the civil service as a Chartered Town Planner Apprentice with experience in national infrastructure projects, training delivery for new inspectors and appeal casework. She is currently pursuing an MSc in Urban Planning part-time, with an interest in health inequalities and upskilling communities.

• Mark Froud

Mark has finished his paid career which involved working at Peterborough Development Corporation, as an economic development consultant on projects in the UK, Europe and a number of other countries, before running membership bodies: Sussex Chamber of Commerce, the Skills Federation, Tempo Time Credits and RSPSoc. He is now a Trustee for the educational charity NOCN, The Geographical Association and the UK Kidney Association and supports other charities in their efforts to measure their impact. He is passionate about addressing inclusion and diversity and is currently mentoring five young people from diverse backgrounds so that they develop the skills to allow them to become trustees.

• Brian Robson

Brian has over 20 years of experience working in housing policy and public affairs. He currently leads the housing and homelessness programme at Oak Foundation, a major global funder, and worked as the Head of Policy and Research at the JRF. Brian was part of the management team at the Northern Housing Consortium and shares management responsibilities of Oak Foundations UK office. He holds a Masters’ Degree in Spatial Planning.

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