Our team

Following a number of marketing and business development roles, both in the UK and Europe, Richard has nearly twenty years’ experience of commercial and corporate services leadership roles with leading membership and third sector organisations. At the RTPI he is responsible for the Human Resources, Information Technology, Facilities, Governance, Marketing, External Affairs and Communications functions. He also leads the institutes’ commercial development activity including the national events programme and membership growth activity. Outside of work Richard holds a Burnley FC season ticket, keeps hens and is a listening volunteer with the Samaritans.

Craig is Director of Scotland and Ireland. In this role he leads the Institute’s policy, public affairs and member services work in Scotland and Ireland and is the lead Director for our work in our English Regions. 

Prior to this Craig set up and managed the Scottish Centre for Regeneration in Scottish Government and its agency Communities Scotland, as its Director.  He has also been Chief Executive of the Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum (SURF); Scottish Planning Policy Officer with the RTPI; and a planner and economic development officer for the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames.  Craig is a Fellow of the RTPI, a Fellow of the RSA and an Academician of the Institute of Urbanism.  He was appointed by Scottish Ministers to chair the National Walking Strategy Delivery Forum and previously sat on the Boards of Scotland’s Towns Partnership, Resilient Scotland, Built Environment Forum Scotland, Greenspace Scotland and the Jim Boyack Memorial Trust.

In his spare time Craig spends time with family and enjoys walking, listening to music, attending gigs, playing the guitar and urging Rangers FC to win a trophy.

Roisin is a Fellow of the RTPI and has worked in planning and regeneration for over 30 years, working in local government, consultancy and education. She is the RTPI’s Director for Wales and Northern Ireland focusing on delivering member services and leading on planning policy and practice activities in the two jurisdictions, is the Director lead for Planning Aid England and is a member of the RTPI’s Senior Executive Team. In 2017, Roisin was awarded an OBE for services to planning in Wales. Roisin completed a PhD at Cardiff University, analysing governance systems to implement European Regional Policy in Wales. Outside work, Roisin enjoys exploring places close to home and further afield, often on foot.

Andrew is a Chartered Town Planner and urban designer and has worked in consultancy, local and national government planning roles since 2000. As Director of Education and Profession at the RTPI he is responsible for Institute-wide education policy and accreditation procedures, student advice and support including the new RTPI Bursary project, member’s lifelong learning and CPD monitoring and standards, and the RTPI Future Planners volunteer initiative to promote planning as a career choice to young people.

Anil is the Chief Technology Officer at the RTPI. 

Richard Blyth has been Head of Policy Practice and Research at the RTPI since September 2011. Since then he has established the RTPI’s new policy paper series starting with Housing in 2013 and also the special RTPI Centenary Planning Horizons research programme with 5 projects being published in 2014. He is in charge of the RTPI’s work on Brexit and the RTPI’s England policy. Prior to this he was an Associate Director at Capita Symonds where he worked on commissions for local authorities on infrastructure planning to support core strategies, and for a number of private clients on regeneration schemes. He spent over four years in the Civil Service, including being responsible for Local Plans in England. Richard led a small team within the Joint Strategic Planning Unit which produced the last Berkshire Structure Plan and has also worked for district councils on local plans. He spent two years in the Gambia West Africa as a physical planning officer working on physical development plans and market regeneration.