Alexandra Notay
Biography
Alexandra Notay is an internationally recognised expert on housing, placemaking and ESG. She has 20 years’ strategic advisory and investment experience having worked extensively across four continents. In August 2024 Alex took over the chair of the Radix Big Tent Housing Commission from Dame Kate Barker.
Until July 2024 she was Placemaking and Investment Director at Thriving Investments (formerly PfP Capital), the fund and asset management arm of Places for People Group, overseeing a UK-wide residential strategy. Achievements include a £390mn JV with Housing Growth Partnership and the successful acquisition of award-winning sustainable developer igloo Regeneration, on whose Board she served.
In October 2023 Alex won Residential Leader of the Year at the inaugural Property Week awards for Inspiring Women in Property. In January 2019 she was selected by BISNOW as one of 48 women shaping the future of UK real estate.
Alex is a published author and editor of over 30 books and reports on real estate including the renowned ULI UK Best Practice Guide on Build to Rent (2014, 2016). Alex is Chair of the British Property Federation (BPF) working group on residential ESG, former Vice-Chair of the ULI UK Residential Council and currently serves on BPF’s Build to Rent and Sustainability Committees and AREF’s ESG / Impact Investing Committee.
She is also an experienced government advisor, serving on two Ministerial Steering Boards at MHCLG for Digital Planning and PropTech and at DSIT as an Independent Commissioner on the UK government’s Geospatial Commission where she chairs the Property workstream and the National Land Use Data Programme. She has also served five years as Co-Chair of the Creative Land Trust and is a Trustee of St Mary Redcliffe.
With a reputation for being ‘abnormally energetic’, Alex is passionate about enabling tangible social impact through innovation and collaboration as well as mentoring the next generation of diverse talent. Alex holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Sussex and a Master’s Diploma in Strategy and Innovation from University of Oxford Saïd Business School.