Peter Baffoe
Chair, Resident Experience Committee and Director, Peabody and South London Mission

Peter is the Director of South London Mission, a small charity based in the London Borough of Southwark and has over 20 years of experience working in community settings. In addition to his role at South London Mission, he serve as Chair of Governors at Rye Oak Primary School, a Trustee of the Maudsley Charity supporting mental health initiatives, and the Vice Chair at Peabody Housing Trust, where he also chairs the Resident Experience Committee. A passionate advocate for social justice, he hopes to help shape strategic decisions that impact housing and community wellbeing through both his day job and voluntary roles.

Chris Grose
Managing Director, ASB Training and Consultancy

Dan Hawthorn
Executive Director, Housing & Social Investment, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea

Dan has twenty years’ local government experience, for London boroughs and two Mayors of London, and currently leads Kensington and Chelsea’s work on housing and property. This includes building the borough’s first new council homes in a generation; the development of a new ‘social investment’ approach to municipal assets; and the wider transformation of services, strategy and culture following the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

Before that, Dan was Director of Housing, Regeneration and Planning at Haringey Council; Head of the London 2012 team at the Greater London Authority; and former Mayor Ken Livingstone’s senior advisor on planning and development.