Louise joined World Habitat in July 2016 and is the Deputy Chief Executive, with over 20 years’ experience in the community and enterprise sector. World Habitat is a UK based foundation that works with communities around the world to find, share and grow housing solutions. Louise leads the organisation’s three programmes – the World Habitat Awards, the European Campaign to End Homelessness and the Global Community Led Housing Programme. Every year they run the World Habitat Awards, in partnership with Un-Habitat to recognise and highlight innovative, outstanding and sometimes revolutionary housing ideas, projects and programmes from across the world.

She has held a number of national roles which has enabled her to combine successful national policy-making with community-based work, including Policy Manager for Locality (a membership organisation of community enterprises) and Director of a national campaign to change the UK benefit system and create community-based jobs for people who are long-term unemployed. As a Credit Union Development Manager, she established a community credit union which now has nearly 8,000 members and has lent over £33 million to local people.