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Mark joined the Cabinet Office as Government Chief Property Officer in January 2022.
Mark is responsible for providing senior, strategic leadership for the whole cross-government property function. He works with a wide range of senior stakeholders within government and in the wider public sector promoting the intelligent use of property to deliver better public services at lower cost to the taxpayer.
Mark provides strategic leadership for the Government Property Function, and holds senior leaders accountable to the Government Functional Standard. He leads on major change programmes, supporting the delivery of better and more integrated public services, overseeing – among others – the Places for Growth programme and supporting the Levelling Up agenda.
Mark has 20 years’ experience at Board level in both the private and public sectors, most recently as Director of Estates Engineering and Energy at Boots UK, but has led teams across Property, Marketing, Procurement, Operations and Transformation in Walgreens Boots Alliance businesses.
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Lynda Rawsthorne was appointed Government Head of Property Profession and Director, Property Capability, Sponsorship & Standards, in August 2023.
Lynda is head of the Government Property Profession, the community of property professionals across government. She provides professional leadership across a diverse range of government departments and arms-length bodies which deliver the government’s property ambitions.
Lynda has over 25 years’ professional experience across the property lifecycle including valuation, managing estates as well as delivering transformational and construction-based programmes. A Fellow of both the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Association of Project Management, Lynda is a graduate of the Major Project Leadership Academy at the University of Oxford.
Ravi Chand CBE QPM Chartered Fellow CIPD
Director, Places for Growth
Office of Government Property, Cabinet Office
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Ravi Chand is the Director for Civil Service People and Places Directorate in The Cabinet Office where he leads the government’s Places for Growth Portfolio. Before the Cabinet Office, Ravi was the Chief People Officer at the Department for International Development (DFID), holding responsibility for people, operations, IT and systems, estates and change.
He was previously the HR director at HM Revenue and Customs with responsibility for workforce management of its 69,000 staff. He led the work on reforming the workforce to deliver the department’s blueprint ambitions for the future. He also worked as the director responsible for capability, talent and diversity at the Home Office, Managing Consultant in a FTSE 100 company and as a serving Police Officer with Bedfordshire Police.
He was awarded a CBE in 2011 and QPM in 2002 for distinguished service..
Ravi is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Saurabh Bhandari
Director, Property Delivery and Transformation
Office of Government Property, Cabinet Office
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Saurabh Bhandari is Director, Property Delivery and Transformation within the Office of Government Property, Cabinet Office. Saurabh is an extremely experienced property professional, having operated at director level on high-profile, national property programmes in the public and private sectors.
His previous role was in the New Hospitals Programme, he is an IPA programme director, and now leads work across Government on Better Buildings, Facilities Management, One Public Estate, and data.
Overall, Saurabh has a wealth of experience in project management, program leadership, and architectural design across various sectors, including healthcare, education, and infrastructure.
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