Speakers
Patrick Harvie MSP
Patrick Harvie MSP was appointed as the Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants' Rights in September 2021.
Patrick was elected as an MSP for the Glasgow region in 2003, has served as Convenor of the Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee during session 3, and as Co-Leader or Co-Convenor of the Scottish Green Party since 2008. He was appointed Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants’ Rights in August 2021.
Jehan Weerasinghe, Managing Director of Glasgow Housing Association
Jehan was appointed GHA's Managing Director in November 2019. He joined GHA in March 2019 as Director of Innovation and Improvement. The dad of two was previously the Regional Director of Operations at L&Q – one of the largest housing associations in England with 95,000 homes across London and the south east. Educated at Oxford University and Reading University, where he studied Comparative Social Policy and Sociology, Jehan previously worked for IBM and the Office for National Statistics. With GHA having become Wheatley Homes Glasgow in April 2022, his new role includes overseeing Wheatley Home's Glasgow’s new-build and regeneration programmes, delivering outstanding services to customers in Wheatley Homes Glasgow’s 40,000 homes across Glasgow and leading on digital transformation.
Callum Chomrzc – CIH Director, Scotland
Callum Chomczuk is the National Director of CIH Scotland, having taken up the post in 2018. He was previously with PR and public affairs consultancy Pagoda PR, heading up its public affairs division and before that worked at Age Scotland, Social Enterprise Scotland and as a researcher at the Scottish Parliament. Callum is past convenor of the Association of Scottish Public Affairs and was previously a board member with Home Link Family Support.
Craig Sanderson, Commissioner, Edinburgh Poverty Commission
The former Chief Executive of Link Housing Association. Craig has 40 years’ experience in the housing sector, and is a former board member of Social Enterprise Scotland, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations and Scottish Council for Single Homeless.
Tony Boyle, Relationships Manager, Aico
Aico Ltd are the UK’s firmly established & dominant market leader in domestic environmental monitoring technology & domestic smoke, heat, CO detection. As Relationships Manager, Tony works in partnership with social housing providers, consultants and contractors aiming to facilitating positive change within the social housing sector.