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Honor Chapman, CBE BSc MPhil FRICS MRTPI (Second Chair)

Honor, who lives and farms in south Somerset, was invited to be the first Chair of Into Somerset Ltd where she brings her vast amount of experience and knowledge to this exciting new Inward Investment initiative for Somerset.

Honor Chapman has had a distinguished career spanning property, marketing, business and urban development in both the public and private sectors.

She has been closely involved with many of the key urban policy issues in the UK including the early planning of several of the new and expanded towns and the conservation of historic cities including Bath.

She has worked on many schemes in the UK and on the Continent including advising Daimler Benz on concepts and strategy for the redevelopment of the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin after the demolition of The Wall, and the Secretary of State for Wales on the concepts, case for and organisational structure needed to implement the regeneration of Cardiff Bay.

As a board member of Cardiff Bay UDC and Chairman of the Development Sub-Committee, she played a crucial role in what became one of the largest urban regeneration schemes in Europe.

Honor retired from Jones Lang LaSalle (international property advisers) at the end of 2003 having been a partner and international director since 1979.

She also retired as a Crown Estate Commissioner having served for seven years. In the mid 1990s (on secondment), she established the London First Centre which markets London to major businesses worldwide.

In September 2003, she was appointed Chairman of the London Development Agency responsible for preparing and delivering the Mayor’s business plan for London with an annual budget of more than £300 million.

She is now Chair and Chief Executive of London’s new Centre of Excellence in Regeneration to identify and bring world-class experience to the professions of running, managing and developing UK towns and cities.

She holds a MPhil in Town Planning, BSc in Estate Management and Sloan Fellowship of the London Business School. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Property Researchers. She chairs the Burlington Gardens Committee of the Royal Academy.

In 1997, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List for her services to the property industry and in 1998 was given the College of Estate Management Award for a lifetime's contribution to the property industry.