RICS Regulatory Board
RICS Regulation is administered by the RICS Regulatory Board which is chaired by a non member of RICS to demonstrate that RICS’ regulation of its members is independent and at arm’s length from the interest of RICS members.
The Board meets regularly to decide policy on regulatory matters and oversee implementation of the regime. It is responsible to RICS Governing Council for its decisions.
There are 11 Board members, six of whom are independent lay members. Details of the Board are set out below.
Teresa Graham CBE
Chairman RICS Regulatory Board
Recently retired Deputy Chair of the Government’s Better Regulation Commission and a former senior partner of Baker Tilly. Teresa is now a consultant to government departments and businesses of all sizes and is passionate about freeing small businesses from the fetters of red tape.
Jeremy Day MRICS
Member RICS Regulatory Board
Jeremy is a member of RICS and a partner at King Sturge LLP where he is Head of Corporate Real Estate, focusing on advice to corporate clients and occupiers. He is a past chairman of RICS Property Management Group, he contributed to the Carsberg Review and led the Transitional Regulatory Board focus group on members’ accounts rules.
Nigel Dight FRICS
Member RICS Regulatory Board
Nigel is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor in private practice, running the firm started in the early 1950s by his father. A significant part of his time is spent dealing with construction disputes either as party representative or a third party resolver. He has previously been involved in RICS’ conduct arena.
David Woodcock FRICS
Member RICS Regulatory Board
David is a retired RICS member and a former Director of Bradford & Bingley Plc, before that the Managing Director of Black Horse Agencies and Partner in general practice in Norfolk having initially trained as an agricultural surveyor. David sat on RICS General Council from 1981 until 1991 and is a former member of RICS Professional Conduct Panel.
Jon Lever FRICS
Member RICS Regulatory Board
Jon a Chartered Surveyor and the Managing Director of DeLever Limited which develops and provides professional training services, competency based recording software, event management and environmental sustainability projects and a range of new media services. Jon is a RICS UK Licensed Assessor Trainer, APC Chairman of Assessors and RICS Training Advisor.
Guy Billington
Member RICS Regulatory Board
Now retired, for 30 years Guy was a partner specialising in corporate work in a major City law firm, advising public company boards on major transactional and strategic issues and, more recently, was the Head of the firm’s Corporate Department, managing a £38 million annual turnover.
Philip Clarke
Member RICS Regulatory Board
Philip is Head of Better Regulation and Consultation at the UK’s Food Standards Agency and is responsible for ensuring the FSA takes account of the better regulation agenda in all of its work. Previous roles include working in the UK Cabinet Office’s Regulatory Impact Unit and as an advisor to the Independent Better Regulation Task Force.
Keith Richards
Member RICS Regulatory Board
Currently Head of Business Development and Consumer Affairs at ABTA, The Travel Association, Keith was called to the Bar in 1985. He is the author of a number of Which? consumer rights books, is a member of CBI’s Consumer Affairs Panel and chairs the aviation working group of the statutory body the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee.
Laura Simons
Member RICS Regulatory Board
A consultant in communications and public relations, with a long-standing career in consumer affairs, Laura works primarily in the charitable sector. She is also a non-executive director of Robust Details Ltd and a member of the Advertising Advisory Committee of the Advertising Standards Authority.
Julian Wildsmith
Member RICS Regulatory Board
Formerly Head of Professional Ethics at the Law Society, Julian is a senior lawyer with substantial management experience and a background in a major Plc, regulated industry, energy and utilities.
Tony Burton B.Sc(Hons), FRICS, MEWI
Member RICS Regulatory Board
Tony was born and educated in Manchester before taking a degree in Quantity Surveying at the University of Reading where he graduated with first class honours. He joined Gardiner & Theobald in 1979. The firm provides construction and project consultancy advice throughout the world, and is one of the largest service providers of its type.
Tony became a partner in 1989 and is now one of the firms senior partners. He has been involved in a broad range of construction projects covering corporate headquarters, industrial, residential, and historic restoration. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Member of the Expert Witness Institute.
Tony was, for four years, an external examiner to the quantity surveying courses at Leeds Metropolitan University, where he still lectures in Value Management, and is shortly to take up a similar position at Salford University. Together with Professor Brian Atkin, Tony was instrumental in establishing an MSc course at Reading University which allowed holders of non-surveying degrees to achieve a professional qualification (MRICS) as a post graduate route.
He was a board member of Central London Partnership and has recently been appointed as a Member of the RICS Regulatory Board. Tony is also a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
