Professor Peter Rees

Peter Wynne Rees is Professor of Places and City Planning at UCL Faculty of the Built Environment.

As City Planning Officer for the City of London, Peter led the planning and regeneration of this world business and financial centre from 1985 to 2014.  He lectures throughout the world and makes frequent media appearances on urban planning and design topics.

Peter is a founder member and director of the British Council for Offices and received their President’s Award in 2003 for “presiding over one of the most extensive periods of redevelopment in the City’s long history”.  In 2012 he was awarded an honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects, for his services to architecture and was the subject of a BBC profile on the “The Culture Show”.  In 2013 Peter delivered the opening presentations at the CTBUH International Conference, “Height and Heritage”, held in the City of London and at the IACIE Convention in Tel Aviv.

He received the 2013 Estates Gazette Award for the Outstanding Contribution to Property and is included in “The Debrett’s 500” list of the most inspiring and influential people in Britain today.