Wesley Ankrah

Founder Managing Director
SeerBridge

Wesley has 10 years’ experience in the charitable and voluntary sector. As a result he gained experience from a major national charity in community engagement and employability. This enabled Wesley to move into the property development sector. Formerly he was the Managing Director and founding partner of Essential Living Future. This was a Community Interest Company associated with developer, Essential Living. Here, Wesley drove a ‘mind-set changing’ approach which challenged traditional approaches to Community and Social Responsibility.

Thus SeerBridge was founded through this experience. Wesley brings his wealth of experience in creating and delivering community engagement with long-term results. His approach to consultation is to get under the skin of the community objectives of clients and deliver unique benefits to the communities and clients he works with.

Cllr Nesil Caliskan

Leader
London Borough of Enfield

Michael Edwards

Teaching Fellow
Bartlett School of Planning

Education: PPE (mostly economics and statistics) in Oxford 1961-4 and then Town Planning at UCL 1964-6.  Employed in Nathaniel Lichfield and Associates and in that capacity worked on the Milton Keynes Master Plan, other new settlements, retail schemes and cost benefit analysis. Joined the UCL staff in 1969. The 2008 date above is misleading: a few weeks after "retirement" I was re-employed.

Faraz Baber

Operations Director - Midlands & South East
RPS

Faraz Baber is the Operations Director for Planning at RPS Group covering London, South East, Midlands and the North of England. RPS was founded in 1970 and is a leading global professional services firm which employs c. 5,500 staff. Faraz is a dual qualified chartered town planner and chartered surveyor; he currently serves as a member of the British Property Federation’s Planning Committee and, as the former chair of the RICS Planning Policy Panel, he also advises RICS on current planning policy issues. His specific areas of planning reform interest and expertise include the evolution of Community Infrastructure Levy and more recently helping to provide technical input into the proposals for an Infrastructure Levy. Faraz provides both strategic and technical expertise to planning projects and over the duration of his career, he has successfully worked on a wide and varied caseload of large and complex schemes across England.