Dame Barbara Judge CBE

Emeritus Chairman
UK AEA

Stéphane Quéré

President of Urban Development
GDF SUEZ

Malcolm Smith

Director, Global Leader,
ARUP - Urban Design & Masterplanning

David Partridge

Managing Partner
Argent

David joined Argent in 1990, he was appointed Joint Chief Executive in 2006 and Managing Partner of the new Argent LLP in 2012 and is Joint CEO of the new Argent Related Partnership. He has overall responsibility for all Argent business, including structuring and establishing financial and management programmes. He oversees the sourcing, master planning, building design, financing and legal aspects for all projects.

David is President of the British Council

for Offices and sits on the Policy Committee of the British Property Federation and on the Advisory Board for the UKTI’s Regeneration Investment Organisation (RIO). He was one of the founding members and now ex-Chairman of both the Piccadilly Partnership in Manchester and the King’s Cross and St Pancras Business Partnership Ltd and is ex-Chairman of CityCo in Manchester.

David read architecture at Cambridge and is

a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and has served on a number of RIBA practice committees.

In May 2015, David was awarded NW Insider

Property Personality of the Year, and in April 2014, David jointly won the Property Week Personality of the Year Award with Roger Madelin. 

Adrian Wyatt

Former Chief Executive
Quintain and Sustainability Champion