Company Profile

Anthony has extensive experience in developing and delivering policies and strategies to ensure that housing continues to drive and contribute to economic, social, environmental, and educational development. He has a robust understanding of housing need and demand, along with the experience in securing innovative funding to deliver affordable housing. Over the last 10 years, across the South East of Scotland, he has delivered a well-functioning housing system (which provides affordable housing opportunities for all); high quality sustainable homes (which promote wellbeing and are energy efficient); homes that reflect and meet people’s changing needs; and sustainable communities (both economically and physically).

In addition, he has delivered business transformation projects aimed at delivering efficient services and efficiency savings. Some of his achievements included:

•  Successfully delivered a number of housing schemes, resulting in the delivery of over 1,000 new homes with two of the schemes awarded the Top 50 UK Affordable Housing Developments of 2013 and 2014 respectively.

• Secured innovative funding that successfully leveraged million pounds in private and grant funding for new housing projects
• Co-Managed the Shared Services Diagnostic Project to tighten management structure and eliminate fragmentation across all Council services which resulted in financial efficiency savings.
• Co- developed the Housing Supply Target aimed at delivering around 70,000 new houses in the South East of Scotland.

Anthony believes that the provision of affordable housing across Africa is crucial to the economic, educational and social stability in Africa. His aim is to support the delivery of affordable housing on the continent.

Professor Adeloye is Professor of water resources management at the Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. He is also the Associate Dean of the University with remit for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Professor Adeloye obtained his Bachelor Honours degree (First Class, First Position) in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Ife (Nigeria) , as a result of which he was the recipient of the Faculty of Technology Prize for being the best overall student in the 1977 graduating Year at the University. He also holds the MSc and PhD degrees in Water Resources Management from Newcastle University, England. His research has focused on the development of robust tools for the sustainable planning and management of reservoirs, for which he has developed rapid but accurate assessment methodologies which remove the need for time series data that are often lacking, especially in developing economies. A further area of focus is the assessment of climate change impacts and its uncertainties on water resources and flooding, and their use for designing robust adaptation strategies. Work has also been extended to groundwater resources and its integrated management with surface water resources. Latterly, he has been developing machine learning, artificial intelligence paradigms, such as supervised and unsupervised artificial neural networks, fuzzy inference and data mining for analysing complex environmental systems, including water quality, wastewater treatment plants operation and control and crop evapotranspiration. His research has been extensively published; his highly successful book “Water Resources Yield” (www.wrpllc.com) is widely used for graduate training and practice worldwide. He has also attracted external funding for his research and he is currently the lead-PI for “MICCI- Mitigating climate change impacts on Indian agriculture through improved irrigation water management”, one of five projects jointly funded by the UK-NERC and India-MOES under the Indo-UK changing water cycle (South Asia) thematic programme. An alumnus of the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 (www.royalcommission1851.org.uk), Professor Adeloye is a chartered Engineer (UK), Chartered Water and Environmental Manager, Member Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, and Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Professor Adeloye is also a seasoned Educator and has taught in Europe, Africa, Asia (including the Middle East) and the Americas, in addition to supervising successfully several doctoral and Masters’ candidates from different parts of the world. Some of Professor Adeloye’s former students are now occupying positions of high responsibility in their various countries. Recently, he has advised the Director General of the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) on technical aspects of floods, droughts and water resources management.

Dr. Adekunle Babayemi FCIH has acquired over 25 years academic, specialist and corporate management expertise in paid employment, research and consultancy projects in the United Kingdom and Africa. Currently president of the African Housing Professionals Association, programme directing an African Development Bank grant initiative in partnership with peer professionals to professionalize the Housing sector in Africa. The initiative is premised on a 5 African nation collaboration to establish Centres of Excellence for Housing resource. One key objective of the initiative is to seek for a collective solution via capacity building for solving the enormous gap in decent and affordable housing for citizen, A common theme cutting across the five nations. His academic pursuit began in the late 80‟s as a graduate of Environmental Health & Epidemiology at the University of Ife. He progressed his academic pursuit in the built Environment at the Westminster University in London (1994) and achieved a postgraduate honours in Community Health with expertise in community law, design and economic integration. He furthered his academic interests at masters‟ level in Housing – Policy, Strategic Development and Finance at the Middlesex University, London. In the last 22 years or so, he has held numerous senior management positions in both the public and private sectors in London and abroad. Until recently, he was Head of Housing Support in a large London Housing Company. He currently runs an established Business Modelling & Capacity Building consultancy, offering a range of Housing Finance & Social Housing expert services to several multinational clients including REDAN. He has completed a Masters programme (MPhil) in Business and strategy at the Middlesex University Business School, London. The (MPhil) award is the preliminary award for the completion of a doctoral programme in; business and corporate strategy – Finance. He is an astute entrepreneur and a keen academic/ researcher. At his spare time, he enjoys golf, body fitness and writing.

Professional Memberships & Board/Committee Roles:

• Overseas member of the Environmental health scientists, Unife chapter (1990).
• Graduate member of the Environmental Health Officers of Great Britain (1993)
• Committee Officer – CIH, London (2000)
• Chartered Institute of Housing – Corporate Member (2003)
• Member Institute of Directors (2006)
• Chartered Institute of Housing – Fellow (2008)
• President, Nigerian UK Housing Society (2010)
• President, African Housing Professionals Consortium, (2011)
• Member, European Housing Research Network (2014)

John graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1987 with an Honours Degree in Bachelor of Land Economy. Since graduating John has enjoyed a diverse and extensive portfolio of experience across the property spectrum covering all asset classes and throughout the UK having worked for leading Scottish and UK companies. John is also experienced in Joint Ventures, has an extensive professional network and is committed to continuous improvement and sharing knowledge. John is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and has spoken at RICS seminars, Investment Property Forum briefings and property conferences.

Examples of Experience:

• Worked on two major shopping centre development projects in London and Stafford along with asset management of a £300M UK-wide mixed portfolio.
• Negotiated and delivered West One Business Park, Edinburgh and initial stages of the Edinburgh Park office developments.
• Advised clients on the purchase, development and sale of various commercial properties including Greenock and Livingston Shopping Centres and several mixed portfolios.
• Managed the 1,500 acre Dunfermline Eastern Expansion project, comprising residential and commercial development – the largest regeneration site in Scotland (at that time).
• Negotiated and agreed the funding structure for a EUR250M office and residential development in Dublin which ultimately delivered a >EUR200M profit.
• Initiated, negotiated and delivered the Joint Venture capability within NAB UK (including recruitment of the team) as part of a wider distressed asset exit framework.)

John is a Director in Bellevue Chapel Evangelical Church. In his spare time John enjoys time with family, keeping fit, reading, travel and watching sport.

Professor Ogunlana is currently the Chair of Construction Project Management at the School of Energy, Geo-Science, Infrastructure and Society at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland. He has an international reputation for research in the application of system dynamics simulation to construction projects and organizations. He is the author of over 220 scholarly publications in top-tier journals and refereed conferences. He is also the editor of the book “Profitable partnering for construction procurement” published by Taylor and Francis and “Training for construction industry development” published by the CIB/AIT and co-editor of “Joint ventures in construction (Thomas Telford) and “Public-Private Partnership in Infrastructure Development – Case Studies from Asia and Europe” (Bauhaus Universitat Weimar). He is the joint author of the book, “Megaproject Risk Analysis and Simulation” published in 2017 by Emerald. His research work has been funded by the Canadian International Development Agency, European Union, Thai National Housing Authority, UNOCAL, Japanese Government, The British Council, Thailand Research Fund, etc. His works on leadership were awarded Emerald Literati Award for two consecutive years (2009 and 2010) for the most outstanding paper in the journal “Engineering Construction and Architectural Management”. Professor Ogunlana is the joint coordinator of CIB W107 Commission on Construction in Developing Economies and a member of the Editorial Board for over 10 internationally refereed academic journals. He has continuing interest in technology innovation for cost effective and sustainable housing.

Professor Ogunlana has acted as external examiner for several top universities in the world. He has also consulted for several international organizations.

Alan is a qualified town planning consultant who has over 40 years’ experience accrued at various professional and technical levels. A former land director with the Stewart Milne Group Ltd and a local government planning officer with a number of Scottish Planning Authorities including Fife County, Tayside Region, North East Fife District, Gordon District and Scottish Borders Regional Councils, he has an in‐depth and comprehensive knowledge of the planning and development process. Having set up a multi‐disciplined planning consultancy with offices in Edinburgh and Belfast in 1994, he sold the Practice to White Young Green Plc in 2006, following which, he set up KCC Consulting Ltd in 2009, now Farningham Planning Ltd. He has acted as lead planning consultant on a variety of successful planning applications including large scale mixed use housing/ business/ industrial/ commercial/ leisure/ tourist/retail/hotel proposals; various complex quarrying and waste recycling operations; fish farms; and, infrastructural and renewable energy projects including wind farms, solar panel and hydro schemes. He has a thorough understanding of planning policy and related supplementary guidance and environmental assessment legislation throughout the UK and Eire, is vastly experienced as an expert planning witness at Public Inquires and Local Plan Hearings and, in preparing and project managing Environmental Impact Assessments Statements and Pre‐Planning Application Public Consultations. He has also made a significant contribution to a number of major planning law publications and articles in both Scotland and Northern Ireland with Neil Collar of Brodies and William Orbinson QC respectively and, provided specialist planning advice to a wide range of clients from both the private and public sectors, community councils and specialist groups.

Olayinka Ajala is a lecturer in Politics and International relations at Leeds Beckett University, UK and visiting Research Fellow at the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He teaches international security and development  within and outside of the UK. Olayinka is currently a consultant trainer for the Ministry of Defence (UK). He has consulted for local and international organisations including the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), the Government of Belgium and was a lead panel analyst on ‘Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Africa’, a round table discussion at the John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Olayinka’s research interests include African security, rural development, resource conflict, human security, formation of insurgent groups and impact of climate change on conflict.

Barri has spent almost 30 years working in the construction industry, in both the public sector and private practice. Focusing mainly on civil engineering and project management, he attained a BSc in Construction and Project Management, and an MSc in Building Conservation (Technology and Management).

Spending the last 15 years in senior management he has been a senior executive and Non-Executive Director, focusing on corporate strategy and governance. More recently Barri has held senior roles, in particular as Chief Executive of a charity with a large asset portfolio.
Barri is enthusiastic about the opportunity to support sustainable development in Africa.