Steve specialises in leadership and change management of diverse and complex organisations. He offers wide experience of housing, regeneration and community development at both a strategic and an operational delivery level. He has a long career in the sector, and is an expert speaker on affordable housing.Steve, who has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, began his career in housing as an intern at the New York City Department of Planning and Urban Development. Since then, he has held a number of senior regeneration and development positions, as well as being chief executive at two housing associations the Housing Corporation, and a successful management consultancy. As chief executive of the Housing Corporation, Steve headed up the agency which had responsibility for an £8.4 billion three-year budget to deliver 155,000 affordable homes and regulate England’s 1,500 housing associations, led on the creation of the National Affordable Homes Programme and was responsible for managing the successful separation and transfer of the Corporation’s role and functions into two new agencies.