Sir Terry Farrell CBE

Principal
Terry Farrell & Partners

Cllr Robert Davis MBE DL

Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for the Built Environment
Westminster City Council

Cllr Robert Davis has served as a Councillor on Westminster City Council since 1982 and is currently the longest serving member of the Council.  He is Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for the Built Environment with specific responsibility for Planning, the Mayoralty and Special Events. Cllr Davis also chairs the principal Planning Application Committees.

Cllr Davis was Lord Mayor of Westminster in 1996-1997 and currently serves as a rota Deputy Lord Mayor. He is also a Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London.

He also chairs the London Mayors' Association and the Board of the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park as well as being a Trustee of Mousetrap Theatre Project, the Savoy Educational Trust and the Sir Simon Milton Foundation set up in the name of his late civil partner Sir Simon Milton (former Deputy Mayor of London). In 2014 he was voted "Conservative Councillor of the Year" in a national newspaper.

He was educated at Gonville & Caius College Cambridge and at Wolfson College Cambridge before training as a Solicitor at the College of Law in Lancaster Gate.  Cllr Davis is a solicitor and recently retired as a partner in Freeman Box, where he specialised in property law.  

Toby Courtauld

Chief Executive
Great Portland Estates

Toby Courtauld, 47, has been the Chief Executive of the listed property company Great Portland Estates plc since 2002.  He graduated from Cambridge University in 1991 and has spent all his professional life in commercial real estate.  He is a past President of the British Property Federation and sits on its Board, as well as the Boards of the Investment Property Forum and the New West End Company.  He is also a non-executive director of the fine wine exchange, Liv-ex.  He lives in London and is married with three children.

Tony Pidgley CBE

Chairman
The Berkeley Group

Tony Pidgley CBE is Chairman of the Berkeley Group. He left school at 15 to form his own company in haulage and plant hire. At 19, he sold his business to Crest Homes and became a Building Director, before leaving to form Berkeley in 1976. Under his leadership the business has grown to become a FTSE 100 company and builds more than 4,000 homes a year. At Berkeley, Tony has led some of the country’s most challenging and celebrated regeneration programmes, including the reinvention of the Royal Arsenal munitions site in Woolwich, and the revival of Hackney’s Woodberry Down estate. He has pioneered a holistic approach to placemaking and is passionate about working in partnership with local people to create welcoming communities that inspire civic pride and enhance wellbeing. Tony has advised successive Governments on regeneration, housing and developing public land. He was a member of Lord Heseltine's Estate Regeneration Advisory Panel, the Thames Estuary 2050 Growth Commission and the Mayor’s Outer London Commission. He was the longest serving President in the history of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was awarded a CBE in 2013 for “services to the housing sector and the community.