{"id":78627,"date":"2020-07-03T08:43:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T07:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=78627"},"modified":"2020-07-03T08:43:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T07:43:22","slug":"partridge-as-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/partridge-as-new-president\/78627\/","title":{"rendered":"British Property Federation picks Partridge as new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bpf.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British Property Federation<\/a> has named David Partridge, senior partner at Argent and chairman of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.argentrelated.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Argent Related<\/a>, as its new president<\/h2>\n<p>David Partridge succeeds Helen Gordon, chief executive of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.graingerplc.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grainger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Guy Grainger, EMEA chief executive of JLL and junior vice-president of the BPF, will step up to become the federation&#8217;s vice-president.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the BPF has appointed Jessica Hardman, head of UK real estate at DWS, to its board. This is the first appointment following an open advertisement among the BPF membership for a board appointment as part of the federation&#8217;s commitment to promoting a more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/diversity-in-construction\/72948\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diverse and inclusive industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hardman&#8217;s appointment follows a number of additions to the board in 2019, including Havin Choha, surveyor at CBRE and chair of BPF Futures; Madeleine McDougall, managing director, head of real estate and housing at Lloyds Bank; and Jonathan Murphy, chief executive officer of Assura and chair of the BPF&#8217;s Healthcare Committee.<\/p>\n<h3>Achieving environmental goals<\/h3>\n<p>Melanie Leech, chief executive of the British Property Federation, said: &#8220;David has been a member of our presidential team for the past two years and I look forward to working with him this year as president to further improve understanding among our key stakeholders of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/women-property-sector\/53683\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">property sector\u2019s<\/a> social value, our role in supporting the government to achieve its environmental goals and our positive impact on the quality of people\u2019s lives across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Property Federation has named David Partridge, senior partner at Argent and chairman of Argent Related, as its new president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[628,882,994,276,661,61643,747,592],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-diversity","8":"tag-employment","9":"tag-equality","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-hr","12":"tag-pbc-today-august-2020","13":"tag-property","14":"tag-skills"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>British Property Federation picks Partridge as new president<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The British Property Federation has named David Partridge, senior partner at Argent and chairman of Argent Related, as its new president\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/partridge-as-new-president\/78627\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"British Property Federation picks Partridge as new president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The British Property Federation has named David Partridge, senior partner at Argent and chairman of Argent Related, as its new president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/partridge-as-new-president\/78627\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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