The New President's Council

The new governance arrangements which we agreed at the EGM last autumn included the setting up of a new body for the Society called The Council. This group of eminent experts in our field and allied architectural disciplines is led by the President and is intended to help advise us as well as to advocate for architectural history and heritage in the public realm. We are delighted to announce the membership of the Council as listed here.

Professor Emeritus Malcolm Airs OBE, Oxford University (Past President)

Mr Bob Allies OBE, Allies and Morrison & British School at Rome

Professor Gary Boyd, Queen’s University, Belfast

Ms Gillian Darley OBE, author & journalist

Ms Helen Dorey MBE, Deputy Director, Sir John Soane's Museum

Professor Miles Glendinning, University of Edinburgh

Dr Liz Green, Senior National Curator Wales, National Trust

Mr Richard Griffiths, Richard Griffiths Architects

Mr Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times & The Cosmic House

Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner, Senior Curator Architecture and Design, Victoria & Albert Museum

Professor Emeritus Maurice Howard OBE, Sussex University (Past President)

Professor Emerita Deborah Howard, Cambridge University (Honorary Patron)

Sir Donald Insall CBE, Donald Insall Associates (Honorary Patron)

Professor Emeritus Neil Jackson, Liverpool University (Past President)

Dr Anna Keay OBE, Director, Landmark Trust

Dr Deborah Mays, Head of Listing, Historic England

Mr Charles O’Brien, Series Editor Buildings of England

Sir Charles Saumarez Smith CBE, Royal Academy of Arts

Mr Matthew Slocombe, SPAB, Secretary of the Joint Committee of the National Amenity Societies

Professor Leslie Topp, Birkbeck, University of London

Professor Ola Uduku, Liverpool University

Dr Diane Watters, Historic Environment Scotland & Edinburgh University

Ms Barbara Weiss, Barbara Weiss Architects

Professor Jianfei Zhu, Newcastle University