LHF - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Group Chief Executive
- Group Chief Executive at Clarion Housing Group
Clare is Group Chief Executive at Clarion Housing Group, which comprises the country's largest provider of affordable housing. A social business, Clarion reinvests its profits into building new homes and providing support and opportunities to its 125,000 households through Clarion Futures, its charitable foundation.
Clare was appointed Group Chief Executive in 2018, having previously been Group Director of Governance and Compliance. Under Clare's leadership, the Group has delivered a record number of new homes and had its highest regulatory gradings reaffirmed. A passionate advocate for social housing, Clare's career has also seen her responsible for the regulation of housing associations at the Tenant Services Authority and The Housing Corporation. Clare is a chartered accountant.
Job Titles:
- Company Secretary of the Foundation
Derek is the Company Secretary of the Foundation and responsible for the management of its investment portfolio. With over 35 years' experience in the financing and organisation of affordable housing he is currently Chair of Aquila Services Group, an LSE quoted consultancy and responsible for its international division.
Don Wood led the organisation as Executive Chairman for five years between 2008 and 2013. During this time the LHF introduced the Atlas and Navigator publications, and concentrated on themes to do with criminal justice, health and employment, training and volunteering. The Foundation has also focused on funding and publicising the Andy Ludlow Awards, now known as the London Homelessness Awards.
Job Titles:
- Head of Programmes at Education Endowment Foundation
Eleanor is Head of Programmes at Education Endowment Foundation, and brings of knowledge and experience of using evidence to improve outcomes for disadvantaged young people. Her work includes managing large grants that are robustly evaluated to assess their impact on students' learning and producing evidence-based guidance reports for schools. Before that, she worked at Social Finance and New Philanthropy Capital. She is also a local councillor and Cabinet Member for Merton Council.
Eloise is Strategic Lead for Housing, Planning and Welfare at London Councils, a cross party organisation representing London's 33 boroughs and the City of London. Much of her work making the case to national and regional government for boroughs has centred on the huge challenge of homelessness.
Prior to this she worked at Camden Council on Housing Strategy and their community grants programme, and before that was at Clean Break - a theatre company working with women offenders and those at risk. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing Policy Board.
Hayley is Executive Assistant at London Housing Foundation, she is the first point of contact at LHF for all enquiries.
Until 2020 Ian was the Chief Executive Officer of Depaul International. Ian has extensive experience and expertise in the housing and homelessness sector and served as a Senior Civil Servant across a number of key Government Departments, including the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Home Office, and the Department for Education. He was Deputy Director of the Government's Rough Sleepers Unit, Head of Delivery for the Respect Taskforce and the Troubled Families Programme.
Before he joined the Civil Service, Ian worked in the voluntary sector for several years and was Deputy Chief Executive of the national youth homelessness charity Centrepoint. He took on the role as Executive Chair of the London Housing Foundation in January 2021.
Jeremy is an adviser on homelessness and has been working in the field of homelessness and housing since 1980, early in his career working as both a hostel worker and a street outreach worker. He was Chief Executive of homelessness charity Thames Reach from 1999 to 2018.
In 2018 Jeremy was seconded to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to manage a range of homelessness programmes for the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Directorate and in 2020 joined the Covid 19 Rough Sleeping Task Force, established by MHCLG to ensure that rough sleepers were able to rapidly come off the streets in response to the pandemic.
John is a retired Architect and for nearly 50 years he was deeply involved with Social Housing, firstly helping to run an Inner City Association and then in his private practice. As a result he has been involved with the provision of many hundreds of new homes over the years and remains passionate about the need for decent affordable homes for everyone. For many years he was on the board of an RSL and has been, and remains, involved with a number of environmental and community organisations trying to raise awareness of the climate issues that confront us all.
Job Titles:
- Group Chief Executive of the Guinness Partnership
- Interim Chair of the Regulator of Social Housing
Since 2018 Simon has been the Interim Chair of the Regulator of Social Housing the government's arms length body regulating England's social housing.
Until 2015 Simon was Group Chief Executive of The Guinness Partnership which owns 65,000 homes across the country. Prior to joining Guinness, Simon was the Chief Operations Officer and then acting Chief Executive of the Housing Corporation.
In the past he has been the Chair of the Dolphin Square Foundation, Director of the National Housing Federation, a Board Member of Homeless International, (a development agency working in Asia & Africa) and Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission's Audit Committee.
Simon Dow, previously Group Chief Executive of The Guinness Partnership and acting Chief Executive of the Housing Corporation, was appointed Executive Chair in September 2015. He has focussed on ensuring that the LHF responds well to the changing environment of homelessness in London and allocating our resources to our three main activities: the London Homelessness Awards; the South Bank University Leadership Course; and grant awards.