Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett is a highly experienced Non-Executive Director, Chair and Special Advisor having previously been Development Director of igloo Regeneration for over 18 years. Igloo has been described by the United Nations as the world’s first sustainable property investor and is the only substantial socially responsible real estate vehicle in the UK. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Goram Homes (a company controlled by Bristol City Council) and and Trivallis Housing Association. He also holds a number of Special Advisory roles with a variety of place-based impact investors and stakeholders.
Mark studied at the Welsh School of Architecture UWIST and obtained an MSc in Project Management at Reading University. He has worked for a variety of consultancies, contractors, developers and joint venture companies throughout the UK for over 30 years. His experience encompasses the full range of commercial, residential, retail, health and leisure projects with responsibility for identifying and unlocking value from major brownfield urban regeneration land holdings with a combined development value in excess of £2.5 billion. These projects have often been delivered in partnerships between public and private sectors with an ethos of collaborative working and customer centric objectives. He has held responsibility across the complete development cycle from market research, strategy formulation, financial appraisal, risk analysis, business case preparation, funding, acquisition, stakeholder engagement, brief preparation, design management, planning, marketing, sales, construction procurement and delivery, settlements, hand-over, property management, customer service, asset management and investment disposal.
Mark comments regularly in the media on urban design and regeneration issues and has been principal speaker and Chair of numerous conferences and events. Mark is a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. Mark is a member of the Chartered Institute for Building, a member of the Association for Project Management, a Chartered Construction Manager and a Fellow of the Forum for the Built Environment. He was also a member (by Ministerial appointment) of the Task and Finish Group for the creation of a Centre of Regeneration Excellence Wales. He is a visiting critic at the Welsh School of Architecture and a visiting lecturer at Cardiff University School of Geography & Planning.