Eight key figures have joined Housing Today's editorial advisory board. They are:

  • Keith Jackson, head of housing policy at the Treasury. He is responsible for housing market issues and for the department's interests in ODPM's housing policy and programme delivery

  • Richard McCarthy, the ODPM's new director general of sustainable communities. The former chair of the National Housing Federation and chief executive of the Peabody Trust, he takes up his new position on 3 November

  • Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, former chair of the Housing Corporation and chair of the government's low-cost homeownership taskforce

  • Max Steinberg, chief executive of Elevate, the east Lancashire housing market pathfinder. He was previously director of investment and regeneration for the Housing Corporation's Northern field

  • Neil Litherland, director of housing, London Borough of Camden, which was the first council to win a three-star rating for housing management

  • Alan Cherry, chairman of Countryside Properties, a leading housebuilder specialising in sustainable development and regeneration

  • Sarah Webb, head of policy at the Chartered Institute of Housing, and former head of the ODPM's community taskforce

  • Tom Manion, chief executive of Irwell Valley Housing Association, whose Gold Service reward scheme for tenants is now being emulated across the UK and taken up in the Netherlands.

    They join the existing board members: Roy Irwin, chief inspector of housing at the Audit Commission; Gerard Lemos, partner at social research and analysis group Lemos & Crane, audit commissioner and head of the commission's new housing panel; Phil Morgan, chief executive of the Tenant Participation Advisory Service; Tom Murtha, group chief executive of Keynote Housing Group and chair of the Birmingham Social Housing Partnership; Anthony Mayer, chief executive of the Greater London Authority and former chief executive of the Housing Corporation; Jon Rouse, chief executive of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, the government's architectural champion for England and Ann Santry, chief executive of Sovereign Housing Association.

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    Housing Today