Liz Peace (Confirmed) Chief Executive Officer, British Property Federation
Liz was a career civil servant with the Ministry of Defence for many years working on a range of projects from Northern Ireland to defence estates acquisitions and public inquiries.
During the 1990s she was a key player in the team that set up the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and subsequently led the first stage of the privatisation process, including the rebranding of the organisation as QinetiQ.
In 2002 Liz became Chief Executive of the British Property Federation with a remit to raise the profile of the commercial property industry in the eyes of the Government and the media. Whilst stressing that there is still lots to do, Liz has made great strides in persuading the Government that the commercial property industry should be taken seriously as a means of delivering social and economic improvement.
She counts amongst her specific successes a string of improvements to planned legislation and regulation in the areas of taxation and planning, the Government's decision not to intervene with legislation on commercial leases and most recently the leadership of a pan industry alliance that has persuaded the Government to introduce Real Estate Investment Trusts.
