Debby has been a Trustee since 2002 and was appointed Chair of the Foundation and the Housing Trust in 2006. Educated at Girton College, Cambridge and with a postgraduate diploma in publishing from Oxford Brookes, Debby worked in housing and local government until 2001. During that time she was chief executive of Habinteg Housing Association, which is especially concerned with housing for people with disabilities. She was also CE of the Octavia Hill Housing Trust, a long established community-based association with a particular interest in the care and support of older people. She has also served on a number of housing association and voluntary sector boards including six years as chair of KIDS, the charity concerned with children with disabilities and their families.

Now a freelance management consultant and writer she specialises in governance, strategic development and inspection. Debby is a member of the Housing and Almshouse Committee of the Mercers livery company.

Debby chairs the Bradford Strategy Group and the Nominations Committee. She is a member of the Poverty Strategy Group, Finance and Personnel Committee, Derwenthorpe Partnership Advisory Committee and the Remuneration Committee.

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