Natasha Adams
Natasha has worked as a professional campaigner for 7 years’ experience coordinating NGO campaigns for social and environmental justice (with many more years experience as a grassroots activist). A skilled lobbyist & digital campaigner, she has specialised in activism as she believes deeper mass engagement and strong social movements are essential to driving change. Natasha currently works for ActionAid UK coordinating activism and also sits on the Council at Global Justice Now. She has previously managed campaigns for End Child Poverty and Concern Worldwide. Before she campaigned professionally, Natasha spent several years working in a women’s refuge in Nottingham.
Kevin Allen
Kevin’s interest in housing originated when I worked as a constituency caseworker for a Member of Parliament. He went on from there to become a housing advice worker for a Shelter Housing Advice Centre covering North Yorkshire and the City of York. Kevin also founded a private tenant group in his home town of Scarborough and secured a contract with the local authority to deliver a homelessness project which would go on to be a founding member of NPTO. HE worked for over 30 years as a civil servant for GCHQ, during that time he served on a national sustainable development consultation group, developed departmental health and safety polices and was an active trade union rep. Currently Kevin is self-employed as a CIEH accredited health and safety trainer and advisor and specialise in electrical safety and inspection.
Robbie de Santos
Robbie de Santos is Head of Campaigns at the LGBT equality charity Stonewall, where he leads on high profile public attitude campaigns and developing a social movement of equality campaigners. Robbie has a decade of experience in campaigning, including three years leading Shelter’s policy work on private renting and developing the campaigns function at the UK’s leading debt charity StepChange.
Bernard Collier
Bernard runs a Business Improvement District in the centre of London, and is a councillor in the London Borough of Brent. He became interested in Generation Rent and the idea of campaigning for private renters after canvassing in his local area. Most people in his ward rent, 48% from private landlords. Many seem powerless to change what are often poor living conditions, it affects their mental and physical wellbeing. He wants to change that and thinks a local solution is not the answer.
Ian Mulheirn
Ian Mulheirn is the Director of Consulting of Oxford Economics. He was previously Director of the Social Market Foundation, leading it to win the Prospect Magazine UK Think Tank of the Year award in 2012, and before that an economist at HM Treasury. In 2016 Ian sat on the panel of the Redfern Review into the decline of home ownership.
Jacky Peacock
Jacky Peacock has been employed by Brent Private Tenants’ Rights Group since it was established in 1986 and has overseen its development from a tenant engagement organisation to the only organisation in the country dedicated to providing specialist legal advice and support services for private tenants. She was awarded an OBE in 2001 for services to private tenants
Robert Carver
Currenly Rob is a freelance consultant, writer and researcher, with interests in the housing market (naturally), quantitative finance and the investment industry. My last professional role was at AHL, a quantitative hedge fund for over 7 years; for the last 3 years I managed the team running a $5bn fixed income portfolio. Before that I worked for CEPR, an economics think tank, as a research manager; and as an exotic derivatives trader for Barclays Capital. I spent my early career in the middle east mainly working as a government trade consultant but also co-founding a sports coaching business.
I have a Bsc from Manchester and an Msc from Birkbeck London, both in Economics.
Maggie Cornall
Maggie is the Director of Housing Services at Blackpool Coastal Housing, an Arms Length Management Organisation acting as Managing Agent for the provision of housing management services within the housing stock of Blackpool Council. She has worked in social housing for many years and has worked for a variety of landlords within the North West of England; local authorities, housing associations as well as working on behalf of a Housing Action Trust. Maggie has a firm commitment to furthering personal development and earned a housing degree and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing. She has been a lecturer on two modules of a Certificate in Housing Level 3 course at the Blackpool and Fylde College. Outside work, she is the mum to three children with age ranges from 8 to 14 years old.
Rosa Payne
Rosa has been working in social housing for eight years across a range of operational and strategic functions and feel strongly that a decent and secure home makes a huge difference to people’s life chances. Her current role is Business Development Manager at Catalyst Housing Association, having previously worked as Head of Service Improvement and Customer Learning at Network Stadium Housing Association. She has previously managed the Mechanical and Electrical department for Network Housing Group, was the contract manager of a major PFI refurbishment programme for Partners in Islington and was a Housing Officer on a large estate in south London. She earned an MSc in Housing and Regeneration from the LSE.
Croydon council first to back End Unfair Evictions campaign
Croydon has become the first council in the country to call for the abolition of Section 21.