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Valerie Owen

Architecture & Built EnvironmentPublic InfrastructureUrban Design, Landscape Design, Green Infrastructure

Valerie Owen is a Chartered Architect, Town Planner, Development Surveyor & Environmentalist; she is an expert in sustainable development & regeneration. In her early career, Valerie specialized in conservation & heritage, providing redundant Listed Buildings with sustainable futures. She then became Architect Director at international consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle & later became Managing Director at London First, delivering sustainable development programs through business/government partnerships.

 

Valerie is passionate about good design, holding numerous Ministerial & NED Board roles delivering major public sector projects: Re-provisioning Covent Garden Market at Nine Elms; Ashford Sustainable Growth Area; Dover Port Western Docks regeneration; Barts & London Hospitals PFI; Thames 2100 Flood Defenses; National Forest Green Infrastructure Programme & Ebbsfleet 21st Century Garden City. Currently, Valerie runs Le Vaillant Owen Sustainable Development Consultancy. She Chairs the ‘Green Tech' Centre for Engineering & Manufacturing Excellence & is on the Boards of Trinity House General Lighthouse Authority & Ebbsfleet Garden City championing great architecture & sustainable design.

 

Awards: (2001) OBE Services to Architecture. (2015) National Women in Construction Lifetime Achievement Award. (2016) CBI First Woman Built Environment Award. (2017) Sunday Times NED of the Year.

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