Maggie Gjessing is Director of Regeneration for Home Group with responsibility for regeneration, specialist and supported housing delivery and asset planning, she was formerly Head of Housing Growth at Leeds City Council having worked for the authority since 2000. She has approx. 30 years’ experience in housing and regeneration gained in the local authority and housing association sectors with a track record of delivering large capital programmes of new build, major repair and refurbishment programmes in addition to housing management experience. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing and an Associate Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.