Our team
Meet the people who lead UKGBC's mission for a more sustainable built environment.
Team
Simon McWhirter
Chief Executive Officer
Get in touch for: Organisational Strategy, Advocacy, International

Elfrida Hamilton-Russell
Chief Impact Officer
Get in touch for: Impact and Leadership

Yetunde Abdul
Director of Industry Transformation
Get in touch for: Industry, Climate Mitigation, Solutions & Innovations, Circular Economy

Alex Benstead
Senior Partnerships and Programmes Manager
Get in touch for: Programme Partnerships, Operations

Philippa Birch-Wood
Head of Climate Action
Get in touch for: Advancing Net Zero & Resilience, Resource Use, and Nature

Paul Cahalan
Head of Marketing, Communications, and Brand Identity
Get in touch for: Media, Policy Comms, Comms Strategy

Siobhan Canniffe
Senior People & Culture Manager
Get in touch for: People, Culture, HR

Macarena Cárdenas
Resilience and Nature Senior Advisor
Get in touch for: Resilience, Resource Use & Nature Programme

Tosca Herson
Activity, Operations and Impact Coordinator
Get in touch for: Policy & Public Affairs coordination, Regenerative Places

Marta Cerdá Martínez
Marketing Officer
Get in touch for: Marketing for Membership, Learning & Events, Paid Marketing

Kirsten Fletcher
Sustainability Coordinator
Get in touch for: Coordination for Advancing Net Zero, Solutions & Innovations, Learning, Systems Change

Emily-Rose Garnett
Solutions and Innovation Senior Advisor
Get in touch for: Solutions and innovation

Kirsty Girvan
Policy and Public Affairs Senior Advisor
Get in touch for: Policy at UKGBC

Anushka Gupta
Activity Operations and Impact Coordinator
Get in touch for: Programme management and operations

Anna Hollyman
Co-Head of Policy and Places
Get in touch for: Regenerative Places, Commercial Retrofit

Binta Suleiman
Membership Coordinator
Get in touch for: Membership enquiries, membership support

Marianne Juca
Digital Content and Media Officer
Get in touch for: Content Strategy, Website Management, Media, Articles/Blogs

Gesine Kippenberg
Senior Sustainability Advisor
Get in touch for: Bespoke Learning and Leadership

Abram Mansaray
Finance Officer
Get in touch for: Accounting, Operations

Alexandra Menego
Senior Activity Operations and Impact Manager
Get in touch for: Programme management & opportunities, Strategy,

Ceri Mugford
Senior Membership Engagement Manager
Get in touch for: Membership Opportunities

Joe Pitts-Cunningham
Senior Experiential Learning and Events Manager
Get in touch for: Learning and Events

Jaime Rebelo
Finance and Operations Manager
Get in touch for: Accounting, reporting & operations

Lucy Rees
Head of Transformative Change
Get in touch for: Leadership, Systems Change, Organisational Strategy & Change Management

Reanna Reilly
Event Coordinator
Get in touch for: Events and Opportunities

Maria Rozanova
Marketing and Communications Manager
Get in touch for: Advancing Net Zero Marketing and Communications

Shruti Sawant
Sustainability Leadership Advisor
Get in touch for: Learning & Leadership

David Steen
Policy & Places Senior Advisor
Get in touch for: Policy and Public Affairs, UKGBC Scotland

Cath Walford
Member Services CRM Manager
Get in touch for: UKGBC’s database

Joanne Wheeler
Co-Head of Policy and Places
Get in touch for: Regenerative Places, Local Policy & Retrofit

Clare Wilde
Sustainability Officer
Get in touch for: Resilience, Resource Use, and Nature

Trustees
Judith Everett (Chair)
Chief of Staff – Arup

Sunand Prasad
Principal – Perkins & Will

Victoria Quinlan
President – Europe – Cortland

Lorna Walker
Co-founder – Camion

Miles Lewis
Director of Sustainability – Clarion Housing Group

Eva MacNamara
Director – Expedition Engineering

Estelle Bailey MBE
Chief Executive – Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT)

Basil Demeroutis
Managing Partner – FORE Partnership

Tara Gbolade
Co-Founding Director – Gbolade Design Studios

Mark Robinson
Group Chief Executive – SCAPE

Sam Ewuosho
Founding Director – The Next Lighthouse

Clifford Ellis
Associate – BGO

