The Public Trust Advisory Panel brings together experienced leaders from across local government, architecture, planning and development, research, education and systems design to guide the Trust’s development and impact. Panel members provide strategic advice, challenge and insight.

Chris Paddock

Chris has over two decades’ experience of working in economy, placemaking and public policy. He is currently Interim Director of Policy, Strategy and Engagement at Rotherham MBC.  He was previously Policy and Strategy Director at London Council's where he had responsibility for the collective response to English Devolution on behalf of the 32 London Boroughs and the City of London Corporation.

Previously a consultant, he helped grow two successful businesses and led place based economic strategies for numerous public sector clients including leading on strategy for the next ten years of Olympic Legacy. He has played a leading role in establishing the London Doughnut Economy Coalition, is an Advisor to Hackney Wick Community Development Trust and sits on TfL's Independent Advisory Board for Seven Sisters Market.

Dee Halligan

Dee is the founder-director of Forth a London based creative lab and Community Interest Company. She is currently leading First Hand, a place-based open learning platform designed to bridge climate awareness and practical action through open and place-based learning. First Hand sits as part of a body of award-winning work, created through self-initiated experiments, consultancy and funded research. It has secured significant research funding to develop agendas around nonformal ‘Open Learning’, including Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and UKRI projects. 

Through her consultancy work and the influential non-profit FixEd she has worked for the National Trust, The Design Museum, Tate and the Science Museum.  She has previously held roles as Creative Associate at Nesta, Design Associate at the Design Council, visiting lecturer at the RCA, LCC and Goldsmiths and is a committed Trustee of the Comino Foundation.

Oliver Goodhall

Oliver co-founded We Made That, an architecture, urbanism and research practice. He has spent two decades working exclusively for the public sector and charities planning for, and delivering, meaningful economic, social and environmental change in the places that need it most.

Working across the country, he has led innovative urban scale masterplans, ambitious development frameworks and flagship community infrastructure projects. This experience is often centred on shaping good growth, high streets and healthy neighbourhoods. In leading a purpose-orientated practice, he brings particular experience of working with under-served locations and communities, working with mosques, food banks, theatres and gardens, reflecting the belief that transformative ideas derive from working long-term within communities on their terms.

Jen Gutteridge

Jen is an experienced regeneration and development leader at PRD with a passion for city-making and experience working on strategic projects across London’s key growth areas such as the Royal Docks and Meridian Water, Enfield. Her experience covers a range of technical and design areas, from scheme design to phasing, assessing scheme viability, optimisation, and structures for onward delivery by the public sector. She has led a diverse range of projects from masterplans and spatial strategies through to land and property transactions between public and private sector partners.

With a foundation in architecture, planning and development, Jen has an interest in complex multi-phase development and finding deliverable solutions. She is active in the built environment community and has previously held voluntary roles on the RIBA Planning Advisory Board, Lambeth Design Review Panel and has been a visiting architecture critic for Cardiff, Cambridge and Sheffield Universities.