Munish Datta
Chair
Munish Datta is Director with Specsavers Group, leading the design and delivery of its global sustainable business strategy. He is a Senior Independent Advisor to BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management providing strategic insight for its pan European ESG investment platform. As a Fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Fellow of University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Munish empowers business leaders from a variety of global companies to tackle critical challenges. He is a trustee of sustainable development charities, Bioregional and Rama Foundation and a governor of the Stephen Perse foundation of schools in Cambridge, UK. His previous roles include Director at UK Green Building Council and Head of Sustainability, Marks & Spencer.
Ami Kotecha
Committee Member
Co-Founder & Group President, Amro Partners
A successful entrepreneur, investor, board director and advisor, Ami Kotecha spearheads technology and sustainability at Amro Partners, the residential living real estate firm she co-founded in 2012.
She is the driving force behind Amro’s data science capabilities, instilling a culture of innovation and digital adoption at all points of the value chain, including ESG, investment and asset management.
With expertise lying at the intersection of real estate, tech and sustainability, Ami recognises the importance of bridging the gap between the technology and real estate sectors to drive innovation that addresses the most urgent issues we face: shortage of housing; tackling climate change and future-proofing our cities.
As Chair of the UK PropTech Association (UKPA) and Board Member of the British Property Federation (BPF), Ami has played a crucial role in the merger of those two organisations in order to accelerate technology adoption through deeper collaboration between property and Proptech businesses. Ami is Founding Chair of the CULS ESG Forum and President of CULS for 2024/25.
Equally committed to serving and mentoring the wider community in which she lives and works, Ami is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and member of the London School of Economics’ Entrepreneurship & Venture Advisory Board.
Geoff Southern
Committee Member
Studio Director | London UK | Architecture & Urbanism
Geoff graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1996 with an Architecture degree. He has further academic and professional qualifications in architecture and landscape architecture, working on projects in both the private and the public sector up to around £1bn in value.
Geoff currently leads the Out-of-hospital Care subsector for Arcadis in the UK. He is responsible for the design of healthcare, science, workplace, community, residential, and mixed-use buildings and masterplans for Arcadis.
Geoff is a regular commentator on issues including strategic planning, net-zero, MMC, housing design for intergenerational and supported living, and designing for community and wellbeing.
Geoff also co-chairs the Architecture & Urbanism Global Design Excellence Group, leads the UK business’ Carbon Reduction Plan, informing the global business ESG policy, and
heads the Architecture & Urbanism Global Climate Action Strategy & Policy Working Group.
Emma Waterhouse
Committee Member
Emma is an Associate in the Investments team at Boreal IM, a recently founded European private equity firm with a current focus on industrial and logistics assets across Western Europe. She has 7 years of experience in the financial services industry, 5 of which in real estate investment.
At Boreal, Emma is responsible for underwriting investments for the firm’s ~€3bn JV with Cadillac Fairview and sits on the ESG Committee as the representative from the Investments team. It is her role to ensure that ESG considerations are embedded into the acquisitions process.
Emma joined Boreal from BlackRock where she was part of the UK/Iberian value-add team, covering both acquisitions and asset management across multiple real estate sectors including logistics, senior living and student housing. She previously spent 3 years at Logicor where she helped to acquire ~€1bn of pan-European logistics assets for Blackstone funds. She started her career on a graduate programme at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Emma has a MA in Modern and Medieval Languages (Emmanuel College) and a MPhil in Real Estate Finance (Jesus College).
Peter Fisher
Peter Fisher
Committee Member
Director, Bennetts Associates. Peter joined Bennetts Associates in 2001 and has been a driving force behind many pioneering sustainable projects in the practice. Having studied both architecture and environmental design, he is fascinated by architecture that straddles the two disciplines.
Key projects have included the remodelling of Hampshire County Council’s HQ, the London Borough of Camden’s civic building and Student Services Centre for the University of Cambridge. He is currently responsible for Timber Square, a net zero carbon workplace development in Southwark.
Peter has taught, lectured and written widely on the subject of architecture and sustainability, was a Design Fellow at the Department of Architecture in Cambridge for seven years and chairs The Knowledge Quarter’s Net Zero Carbon Advisory Group.
Dr Lucy Greenwood
Committee Member
Dr Lucy Greenwood is a Director within the Residential Research and Consultancy team at Savills. She joined Savills in 2013 and specialises in UK wide development research.
Lucy spends much of her time focussing on bespoke strategic, development and investment reports for a wide range of clients including landowners, developers, housing associations, investors and the public sector covering a range of markets across the UK. Her research involves supporting companies with their development strategies, due diligence work for housebuilder M&A’s, profiling who will move to the new homes on a site, assessing the suitable housing mix and potential delivery rates for sites as well as the impact of placemaking on values and sales rates. She also regularly presents at industry events and to the boards of PLC housebuilders as well as writing thought-leadership publications on the development industry.
In terms of ESG, some of her consultancy and public facing work involves assessing green premiums and the performance of more sustainable homes as well as the social impact of development and the positive impact of delivering new homes on society.
Before joining Savills, Lucy completed a PhD in Geology at the Open University after studying Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
David Willock
Committee Member
In 2021, David founded the Sustainability & Sustainable Finance team at Lloyds Bank where he is now Managing Director, supporting clients across all corporate sectors to achieve their sustainability goals. Prior to this he was part of the Lloyds Bank real estate & housing leadership team as Managing Director responsible for sustainability & origination having previously held senior real estate finance roles at Lloyds and NatWest. David is a Loan Markets Association Sustainability Committee member, part of the UK Green Building Council Members Advisory Group and sits on the Next Generation Initiative Executive Committee. He recently obtained a Masters of Studies in Interdisciplinary Design in the Built Environment at the University of Cambridge and has a 1st class undergraduate degree in Economics & International Development. He is a qualified treasurer (AMCT), holds an ASCI designation from the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investment and gives lectures on sustainable finance & real estate at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership.
Tor Burrows
Committee Member
Tor Burrows - Group Sustainability Director, Grosvenor and
Executive Director of Sustainability, GPUK
Tor Burrows is Group Sustainability Director and is a member of the Group Executive as well as Executive Director of Sustainability for Grosvenor Property UK. Tor leads Grosvenor’s global sustainability strategy across all international property, food & agTech and rural estates businesses. This includes overseeing Grosvenor’s global carbon commitment, to reduce emissions in line with limiting global warming to 1.5 °C across all business activities.
For Grosvenor’s UK property business, Tor oversees the strategy and delivery of ambitious environmental and social sustainability goals, and her team was awarded edie’s ‘Team of the Year’ accolade in 2022.
In 2021, the UKGBC appointed Tor as a UK Built Environment Climate Ambassador for the COP26 summit. She worked alongside other property sector leaders to galvanise stronger commitments and action from the industry and government. Tor is also a Trustee at Turtle Key Arts, a charity that produces and devises art with a particular focus on engaging vulnerable and disadvantaged parts of society.
In 2024, the Women in Green Business Awards shortlisted Tor for Corporate Sustainability Lead of the Year and Modern Woman selected her as one if its Top 10 Women in Property and Construction.
Karl Limbert
Committee Member
Karl began his career as an intern with the UN before working as an intelligence officer with the UK government. He has held senior roles in central and local government and led large public private partnership programmes in the regeneration, education, and energy sectors. He joined ENGIE in 2017 and became UK Strategy Director of EQUANS (part of the Bouygues Group) in 2019. He is a Fellow of the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, an Academician of the UK Academy of Urbanism, and is currently undertaking post grad research into ‘AI and the future of work’ at the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.