Kunle Barker is a distinguished expert in the built environment, with a multifaceted career encompassing journalism, advisory roles, and strategic planning. As a judge for the IBP Awards, Barker draws on his extensive experience in reporting on architectural and urban planning trends.

His advisory work with government bodies and his role with the Church of England on the UK Housing Strategy Roundtable underscore his commitment to shaping sustainable housing policies. With a deep understanding of both media and policy, Barker’s insights into the intersection of design, development, and governance make him a pivotal contributor to recognising excellence in the built environment.

Adrian Barrick has been editorial director of the FT’s Specialist Media division in Europe since January 2023. His role is to help the editors of the FT’s 10 specialist brands in Europe to build loyal professional audiences by telling valuable stories you won’t read, see or hear anywhere else.

In a 37-year business media career, Adrian has been a reporter, editor, publisher, divisional CEO and - since 2012 - an editorial director for companies including UBM (now Informa), Haymarket, and Incisive Media.

He has won a host of awards, including BSME editorial director of the year in 2021. He was also part of the team that launched The Sustainable Investment Festival, the 2022 PPA business event of the year.

Giles Barrie has over 30 years of experience, and specialises in communications strategy, media relations, thought leadership, research and crisis communications. Giles is a former Editor-In-Chief of Property Week who has also worked at the architects’ paper Building Design and as Deputy Editor at Building magazine.

Giles won British Society of Magazine Editors, Periodical Publishers Association, Association of Online Publishers and International Building Press awards before joining FTI Consulting in 2013.

Giles works in corporate and financial communications and public affairs and advises some of the UK’s best real listed real estate companies, fund managers, developers, advisers, contractors and architects.

Neil Callanan writes, edits and manages big picture credit stories at Bloomberg News in areas as diverse as commercial real estate, private markets and shadow banking. Prior to that, he was London bureau chief at the organization, managing about 500 reporters and editors. Neil joined Bloomberg in 2011, having previously being business editor of The Sunday Tribune.

He went on to manage EMEA coverage of everything from hedge funds to insurance and financial regulation. He has won a number of journalism awards, including a SABEW this year, and has more than 20 years’ experience of covering property markets.

Denise Chevin is a journalist, editor, and commentator in the built environment. Her roles have included editing Building and before that Housing Today. She has edited Construction Manager and was consultant editor at Construction News and Utility Week. Denise has authored numerous reports and books from a diverse range of organisations – including the Smith Institute, the NLA and the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment. She was closely involved in successfully championing a New Homes Ombudsman. She has also worked closely with the Construction Industry Council on the industry response to Grenfell. In 2022 she was awarded an MBE for services to the built environment.

Tim Danton has been at the helm of PC Pro for over two decades, with the magazine recently celebrating its 30th anniversary. He has also helped to launch several websites in the technology sector, most recently TechFinitive.com, and written a best-selling book entitled The Computers That Made Britain.

Rebecca's career as a B2B journalist included roles as news editor of Inside Housing and Local Government Chronicle, deputy editor of Health Service Journal and Nursing Times, and editor of Construction News from 2011-2017. She won the BSME weekly business brand editor of the year in 2014.

More recently, Rebecca was director of content at political intelligence service DeHavilland and director of impact at social research agency Revealing Reality.

Isabel Hardman is Assistant Editor of the Spectator and presenter of Radio 4’s The Week in Westminster. Her books are Why We Get The Wrong Politicians; The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind and Fighting for Life: The 12 Battles That Made Our NHS, and the Struggle for Its Future. She is also a columnist for the i paper and writes regularly for other publications, as well as contributing to Times Radio. She was named the youngest ever Political Journalist of the Year in 2015 by the Political Studies Association. She began her career at Inside Housing magazine.

Phineas Harper is an innovative leader in developing sustainable cultural programmes that engage broad audiences with architecture and design. A regular contributor to The Guardian, their career spans criticism, curation, education, youth work, journalism and sculpture. They were previously chief executive of Open City, Deputy Director of the Architecture Foundation and Deputy Editor of the Architectural Review.

Joanna is an award-winning business journalist, specialising in property and retail. She has spent nine years at the Evening Standard, most recently as senior City correspondent, writing news stories and features for the newspaper and website. Joanna has also worked at The Independent on the business pages, and prior to that Joanna wrote for business magazines including Estates Gazette.

Yasmin has built a reputation as a cultural and communications thought leader on the importance of culture, creative enterprise and regenerative design principles in delivering both economic and social value. Her expertise in research, tracking investment trends and translating the power of culture and commerce is borne out of her previous experience working for the Financial Times where she developed her specialisms in foreign direct investment, ESG and design.

As a senior strategist, working across investment, real estate and the creative industries, Yasmin is committed to demonstrating the power of culture and co-creation as catalysts to unlocking inclusive regeneration.

Stuart founded See Media in 2014, after building a career as an award-winning journalist. See Media is a specialist PR agency that provides strategic comms support to the UK’s housing sector. Stuart’s aim is for See Media to help team members and clients make a positive difference. The team works with housing associations, local authorities, consultancies and other key sector suppliers.

Stuart is Vice-Chair of global housing charity, World Habitat. He is also a past President of the IBP and former editor of Inside Housing. Stuart held senior roles at Building, Housing Today and reported for The London Evening Standard.

Emma is a life-long researcher, interested in what makes people tick and how to make changes for the better. She has spent 20 years in research and media. Her current research interests include targeting behaviour change interventions effectively to promote sustainable transport choices, and use of gamification to support behaviour change. Throughout Emma’s career, she has focused on social policy, social change, influence and decision-making. She has been editor and publisher of Inside Housing and Local Government Chronicle magazines.

Dominic has worked with senior decision makers in the built environment for than three decades. As Executive Director of ING Media, he advises on business development, brand, marketing and communications strategies, also providing counsel on a range of senior management issues. Dominic brings more than twenty-five years’ experience in consultancy, together with eleven years in business journalism, which included the role of Deputy Editor at Property Week.

Peter Murray OBE Hon FRIBA is Co Founder of New London Architecture (NLA), Founder of the London Festival of Architecture and Chairman of the Temple Bar Trust. He was formerly editor of Building Design, Editor and Publisher of RIBA Journal, Founder of Blueprint and IBP President. He was design advisor to London Mayor Boris Johnson and Design Advocate to Sadiq Khan. He was awarded an OBE 2021 for leadership in the arts, architecture, city planning, design and publishing and charity.

Richard Northedge worked on trade publications for the property world and architects before becoming property editor for the Investors Chronicle, then the Evening Standard. At the Daily Telegraph he was Deputy City Editor for 12 years, leaving to help found the Sunday Business newspaper, which he edited. After going freelance he spent 11 years at a City investment bank before returning to freelancing and novel writing in 2022. He has been an IBP judge for some 30 years.

Vanessa Norwood is a curator and consultant. She has shaped public and professional discourse on architecture through a series of critically acclaimed exhibitions. Vanessa works with clients in the built environment towards building a low-carbon future, one that respects people and planet.

Sarah Richardson is editor-in-chief and director of Research Professional News, an international daily news service for the higher education sector published by Clarivate. From 2012–2017 she was editor of Building, having held news editing, features editing and reporting roles on the title. She is a past winner of the Association of British Science Writers editor of the year award, PPA business writer of the year and IBP young journalist of the year. She is a Trustee of the Talent Foundry, a charity that works to create access to education and training opportunities for young people from challenged communities.

Barbara has led and taught on undergraduate and postgraduate journalism programmes at three of the UK’s leading journalism schools. She was director of City, University of London’s MA in Magazine Journalism from 2000-2018. She has over 20 years’ experience delivering media training packages in print and broadcast skills, to staff from pressure groups, public relations companies, charities, human rights organisations and government departments. She is a journalist and has worked across B2Bs, consumer magazines and national newspapers, both as a generalist and as a health specialist.

Saba Salman is an award-winning social affairs journalist, editor and author. Her book Made Possible is an anthology on disability and human rights, influenced by her sister Raana. Saba is a former Evening Standard local government correspondent and reporter for The Times. She is a long time contributor to The Guardian, currently writes for Byline Times and is the relaunch editor of Community Living, which covers disability issues. Saba chairs the charity Sibs, which supports disabled people's siblings, is an ambassador for non-profit the National Development Team for Inclusion, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Jack is an award-winning journalist who currently works as a business reporter at The Guardian. He spent seven years as a journalist in the built environment sector working at Construction News and Inside Housing, where he won a few IBPs along the way. After this, he spent time at The Telegraph as its transport correspondent before moving to The Guardian earlier this year.

Katherine is an Engineer, award winning journalist and business development professional with almost 20 years of experience in working in the built environment.

She started out her career as a structural engineer working on a range of projects including the earthquake rebuild effort in Christchurch New Zealand. She subsequently moved into technical journalism covering all aspects of civil infrastructure, with HS2 exclusives and live appearances on Radio 4, 5Live and BBC World Service after a number of high-profile bridge collapses. She is a passionate advocate for clear, accurate and engaging reporting on engineering topics. She is now using her combined experience, to lead the growth of AtkinsRealis’ offshore wind business.

Claire Smith is geotechnical engineer by training but has spent the main part of her career as a construction journalist. She worked all over the world on a number of different construction titles before joining Emap in 2011 to edit Ground Engineering magazine with a greater focus on the UK market. In 2020, she took over as editor of New Civil Engineer and became the magazine’s first female editor and oversaw its 50th anniversary celebrations in 2022.

Claire joined Mott MacDonald as managing editor in late 2023 where she is responsible for the company’s external editorial content across UK and Europe.

David edits New London Quarterly (NLQ), the magazine affiliated with New London Architecture, is editor of its weekly newsletter, New London Weekly, and edits Velocity Magazine, the magazine about people, property and bikes, which he co-founded. He is also a freelance writer and podcaster, having launched ‘Detailer – commute-sized conversations about the city’, and is the author of a number of books, most recently ‘The Making of Barangaroo South, Sydney’, for RSHP.

Caroline has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years, many of them focused on the built environment. Now freelance, her previous roles include commissioning editor at the Financial Times and deputy editor of Inside Housing.

Andy is a strategic communications, public affairs and membership engagement professional and also a journalist, writer, and presenter, with three decades of experience. He has particular experience and knowledge of the construction, built environment and infrastructure sector and is managing editor of the online news platform Infrastructure Global, for which he writes regularly. Andy was previously the editor of the construction sector magazine and website, Infrastructure Intelligence and is a regular contributor to Climate Perspectives magazine. He also advises a range of clients across the built environment sector on communications issues.

James spent 25 years as a journalist, latterly as executive editor of Property Week, before joining public relations consultancy, Tavistock, in 2013, to focus on the real estate sector. As a journalist he won many IBP awards and the PPA’s Business Writer of the Year in 2007, one of the top prizes for business journalists.