Prof. Peter Williams

GRM 2012 Workshop: Housing Markets and Policy Design in the Gulf Region

Director - Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research, University of Cambridge

Peter Williams is the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research at the University of Cambridge with specialist interests in the areas of housing finance, markets and policy. He is a member of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Housing Market Taskforce looking at the long-term stability of the market in the UK. He has authored and edited several books on housing and social change and is on the Management Board of the Journal of Housing Studies and chairs the Housing Studies Charitable Trust. He is also Executive Director of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association and a Board member of the Kent Reliance Provident Society and One Savings Bank, Consult CIH, the National Housing Federation and Thames Valley Housing Association, and Chairman of Acadametrics, the house price consultancy. He is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Housing Policy, University of York.