Lucy Musgrave

Founding Director
Publica

Lucy Musgrave is the founding director of Publica, a London-based practice that specialises in strategies and design for public space, urban design and masterplanning. Over a 25-year career, Lucy has played a key advisory role in policy recommendations, strategic planning and the advocacy of design quality. She is currently a Mayor’s Design Advocate and sits on the Mayor’s Night Time Commission and the Sounding Board for the Mayor’s Public London Charter. Lucy is a member of the Barbican Centre Board and the National Infrastructure Commission's Shadow Design Group and Expert Advisory Group.

Louise Wyman

Design Lead
West Midlands Combined Authority

Louise is a Director at Homes England and Design Lead for West Midlands Combined Authority and Mayor Andy Street. She’s a member of the National Infrastructure Commission’s Design Group and Ambassador for Harvard University.

Louise trained as a Chartered Surveyor and Landscape Architect in the UK and USA and is adept at directing multi-disciplinary teams to deliver award winning projects. She produced the West Midlands Design Charter in 2020 in collaboration with 18 Local Authorities and 3 LEPs; intended to promote regional creativity, innovation and quality placemaking. She’s part of the expert group that created Design Principles for National Infrastructure.

Experienced at leading organisations to deliver projects of national significance, Louise has been Executive Director of Ebbsfleet Development Corporation; Government’s Garden Towns & Villages Lead; Director of Strategy & Engagement at Homes England and a London Legacy Development Corporation planning committee member. Louise is a high profile speaker, author and inclusion advocate.

Debbie Jackson

Director - Built Environment
Greater London Authority

Debbie is Director of Built Environment at the Greater London Authority. In this role Debbie is responsible for the full range of the Mayor’s statutory Planning responsibilities alongside being the CEO-equivalent for LEAP – London’s Local Enterprise Partnership. Debbie has worked for London Government for over ten years, playing a leading role in delivering positive outcomes for Londoners in partnership with the public, private and third sector. Debbie’s achievements include the development and delivery of programmes such as the Good Growth Fund, Crowdfund London, the Skills for Londoners Capital Fund and Good Growth by Design. Previously, Debbie had roles in regeneration and street environment at Westminster and Lambeth local authorities and has a total of 22 years’ experience of working in London’s public sector.

Katharine Marsden

Development Manager (Public Spaces), Placemaking Team
Grosvenor Britain & Ireland

Katharine has worked at Grosvenor Britain & Ireland since the start of 2019. She assisted in setting Grosvenor’s 2030-2050 environmental goals, is partnering with London Design Festival to deliver accessible public art and is delivering green infrastructure projects across the London estate. Katharine is working on multiple projects that are public & private partnership led, and strongly advocates for community led design to improve the public realm and create a better quality of life. Katharine is a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) and a Practitioner IEMA member. Her academic work has been published in ‘Sustainable Building Design: Principles & Practice’.

Patricia Brown MBE

Director
Central

Patricia runs Central, a niche consultancy advising civic and business leaders on urban change. She has over 25 years of direct experience thinking about, influencing and improving London, and at the heart of many of the initiatives that have been part of the city’s successful evolution.

In the mid 1990s she worked alongside real estate guru Honor Chapman in helping to establish London’s first inward investment body, promoting London as a premier business destination. She became CEO of the Central London Partnership in 1997, leading a cross-sector partnership and agenda set on maintaining the capital’s position as a global world city. At CLP, she led much of the early work to achieve this sustained success through ensuring it was a city that people wanted to be in; a people-focused, liveable city, with improved quality of life and built environment.