Main Commission
- Lord Best (Chair)
Social housing leader and member of the House of Lords. - Pam Alexander
Chair of the Planning Committee and Board member of the London Legacy Development, advisor to One Planet. - Prof. David Banister
Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies at the School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE) and the Transport Studies Unit. - Yolande Barnes
Professor and Chair of Bartlett Real Estate and Director of World Research at Savills. - Mel Barrett
Chief Executive of Nottingham City Council and a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. - Lord Karan Bilimoria
Member of the House of Lords, Founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer and Chairman of the UK India Business Council. - Sir David Brown
Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and Chair of the Bletchley Park Trust. - Joan Clos
The former Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) - Prof. Rachel Cooper
Professor of Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University, President of the Design Research Society, Fellow of the Academy of Urbanism. - Dr. Michael Dixon
GP and National Clinical Lead for Social Prescription (NHS England), as well as being Chairman of the College of Medicine. - Alice Lester
Brent’s Operational Director for Regeneration, Growth and Employment, having previously been Head of Planning. - Dr. Kamal Mahtani
GP and Associate Professor at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. - Marvin Rees
Mayor of Bristol.
International Advisory Board
- Nigel Crisp (Chair)
Independent crossbench member of the House of Lords where he co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health. - Denise Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE
Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone. - Bruce Katz
Director of Finance Lab at Drexel University and former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. - Dorothy Kisaka
Ugandan Lawyer and Executive Director at Kampala Capital City Authority. - Dr Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
UN Under-secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, South Africa. - La June Montgomery-Tabron
President and CEO of W.K. Kellogg Foundation. - Aromar Revi
Director of Indian Institute for Human Settlements. - Enrique Ruelas
Prior secretary for General Health Council of Mexico. - Tina Saaby
Chief city architect Copenhagen. - Rob Stokes
New South Wales Minister for Cities, Minister for Infrastructure and Minister for Active Transport. - Lan Wang
Professor of Architecture and Urban planning Tongji University, Shanghai.
Research Group
- Professor Carl Heneghan
- Dr David Howard
- Dr Georgia Richards
- Dr Juliet Carpenter
- Robert Weavers (Administrator)
Subgroup A
The Built Environment, Design and Place-making (housing, planning and urban design, regeneration):
- Professor Rachel Cooper
(Professor of Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University) (C) (Chair) - Pam Alexander
(Future Cities Catapult; London Legacy Development Corporation) (C) - Mel Barrett
(Chief Executive of Nottingham City Council) (C) - Lara Kinneir
(Leader / Design Cities, The London School of Architecture) - Alice Lester
(Operational Director, Brent Council (previously Head of Planning)) (C) - Gail Mayhew
(Principal, Smart Growth Associates) - Sowmya Parthasarathy
(Director, Urban Design & Master Planning, Arup)
Subgroup B
Transport and Movement, Infrastructure and Technology (Smart Cities):
- Professor David Banister
(Professor of Transport Studies, University of Oxford’s School of Geography; Environment and the Transport Studies Unit) (C) (Chair) - Professor Yolande Barnes
(UCL Bartlett Real Estate Institute) (C) - Sir David Brown
(Chair, The Manufacturing Technology Centre) (C) - Lord Karan Bilimoria
(Chair, Cobra Beer; CBI President) (C) - Polly MacKenzie
(Chief Executive, Demos/Public Participation Lab) - Emma Pinchbeck
(Chief Executive Energy UK) - Nicola Yates
(Chief Executive, Future Cities Catapult)
Subgroup C
Health & Wellbeing (public health, social prescribing, food and exercise, health creation):
- Dr Michael Dixon
(Chair, College of Medicine) (C) (Chair) - Dr Catherine Calderwood
(Centre for Sustainable Delivery; former Chief Medical Officer, Scotland) - Dr Joan Clos
(past Head of UNHabitat and former Mayor of Barcelona) (C) - Professor Dame Jane Dacre
(UCL Medical School, former President of the Royal College of Physicians) - Dr Kamal Mahtani
(GP and Associate Professor at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine) (C) - Marvin Rees
(Mayor of Bristol) (C) - Sally Warren
(Director of Policy, The King’s Fund)
(C) = Commissioner