Dame Kate Barker has recently been appointed chaired as Deputy Chair of the new independent taskforce which will identify locations for new towns and urban extensions for the new Government. She is well known in the sector, having led major government reviews of housing and planning in the mid-2000s, including the 2004 ‘Barker Review’.
Kate’s interest in housing continued, and she has served as an NED at the Yorkshire Building Society and for Taylor Wimpey plc. In 2014 she published ‘Housing: Where’s the Plan’. She is presently chair of the trustee board at the Universities Superannuation Scheme, and also chairs the Governing Council of the Productivity Institute. From 2017-20 she was a member of the National Infrastructure Commission and was a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee from 2001-2010.