RICS makes permanent SRB hires

The RICS has appointed 10 permanent members to its standards and regulation board, nearly a year after a mass walkout. The organisation said nearly 300 candidates applied for the seats, which are divided into five RICS member and five independent member roles. The SRB appointments are: Keith Thomas FRICS, director at PER Consulting Olga Turner Baker MRICS, managing director and co-founder of consultancy Ekkist Sara Ensor MRICS, global head of risk and compliance, value and risk advisory at JLL David Fogarty FRICS, head of ESG consulting and sustainability services, Singapore and Southeast Asia at CBRE Andrew Reynolds FRICS, chairman of construction consultancy Rider Levett Bucknall Yo-Hann Tan, former managing director, client capital at Savills IM Lynne Livesey, solicitor Sukhvinder Kaur-Stubbs, chair of regeneration at the London Legacy Development Corporation Neil Stevenson, chief executive of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission Jonathan Lurie, managing partner at Realty Corporation and senior adviser at McKinsey & Company Thomas, Tan and Livesey were previously appointed as interim members of the board in July last year. Independent SRB chair Nigel Clarke led the appointment process, supported by an appointment panel comprising independent recruitment specialist Cindy Butts and Clare Johnson, deputy head of property profession at the Valuation Office Agency. The new SRB members began their appointments earlier this month. Clarke said: “I am confident our new SRB will help inform and drive forward confidence in the quality of RICS’ regulation and strengthen trust in the profession. “This is a busy time for RICS and the built environment, and the SRB is undertaking critical work on professional standards and regulation for our global profession.” Chris Alder, senior executive at RICS, said: “Establishing and maintaining world leading standards and regulatory practices is a central tenet of RICS’ global role, and the SRB lies at the heart of strategy and decision-making in this area.” The news comes after recent appointments to the RICS’s professional standards steering group and the pilot consumer working group. Both report to the SRB. The previous 10-strong board, chaired by Dame Janet Paraskeva, resigned in June last year.