Lord Richard Best OBE
Lord Best is currently President of the Local Government Association, Chair of the Hanover Housing Group and until very recently of the House of Lords Audit Committee. He Chairs the Giving Forum and the Private Rented Sector Policy Forum. He is a Trustee of the RSA and The Tree Council and the Phoenix Fund for Zimbabwe.Richard Best is the Chair of the Independent Commission on the Future of Housing for Northern Ireland. He is Vice Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Urban Development and Treasurer of the APP on Housing Needs and Homelessness. He serves on the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee.
He is Deputy Chair of Westminster City Council’s Standard Committee and he is a Vice President of the TCPA and Patron of the Housing Associations Charitable Trust. He is also a member of the Audit Commission’s Housing and Regeneration Advisory Board.
Richard Best is a Chair of the Council of The Property Ombudsman and Chairs the OPM Public Interest General Council. He is a Hon Fellow RIBA, Hon Life Member Chartered Institute of Housing, Hon Doctor of Letters, Sheffield University.
In the past Richard Best has been Director of both the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust, and the Chief Executive of the National Federation of Housing Associations (now NHF). He was a member of Ministerial Sounding Boards from 1999 – 2005 and Chairman of the Westminster Commission (2005/6). He was created a Life Peer in 2001.
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