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Christopher Howes |
Sir Christopher Kingston Howes KCVO, CB, FRICS, FRIBA, DLitt, MPhil, BSc (born 30 January 1942) is a leading figure in the world of land and buildings with a career in the public, private and academic sectors.
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The younger son of Leonard Howes OBE and Marion Howes (née Bussey), he was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and the University of London, where he graduated BSc in 1965. Fellow Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors 1966. M.Phil University of Reading 1975.
Howes's career has spanned the public and private sector.
1965-1967 Valuation and Planning Department, The Greater London Council.
1967-1978 Professional career in Norwich including Steward and Hon Surveyor the Dean and Chapter of Norwich Cathedral. Adviser to Local Authorities. Member Norwich Council, Magistrate Norfolk, Founder Member Theatre Royal Trust, Cotman Housing Association and Norwich Third World Centre.
He was Director of the Land and Property Division for the Department of the Environment from 1979 to 1989, Visiting Professor at University College London and Chairman of the World Land Policy Conference. OECD Urban Policy Group 1985.
1992-1999 Trustee HRH The Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture. 1995-1998 Member Secretary of State for the Environment's Thames Advisory Board. Member Court of Advisers,
For eleven years from 1989 he was Chief Executive of the Crown Estate in the United Kingdom, valued in 2006 at three billion pounds. It includes most of Central London, over half of all the United Kingdom's forests, hundreds of farms and other rural estates, and the whole of the British seabed between the coast and the twelve-mile international limit. In 2006, the annual income of the Crown Estate was around two hundred million pounds.
He is an adviser to Barclays Capital and a member of the Advisory Board of Barclays Private Bank. Member, Advisory Board of Delta LLP; member, Council of the Duchy of Cornwall; Director, Howard de Walden Estates.
Both before and since managing the Crown Estate, Howes has pursued a wide variety of business, academic, charitable and other interests (see below).
===Career outline 1965-1967 The Greater London Council !967-1979 Professional practice in Norwich and London.
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