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New Director of Design Council Cabe announced

 

Nahid Majid OBE is to be the new Director of Design Council Cabe, the Design Council announces today.

 

Nahid Majid has worked for over twenty years in urban regeneration as a professional urban designer. Initially trained as an urban planner and designer, she has led project management of high profile urban regeneration projects including the creation of the cultural quarter around Brick Lane in London. She became Urban Renaissance Manager for The Prince of Wales Foundation for The Built Environment before joining the private sector as Associate Director of Regeneration at Turner and Townsend Construction Management. She also won and ran the project to create the Stephen Lawrence Centre in Deptford, appointing architect David Adjaye. 

 

More recently, Nahid was a Senior Civil Servant in government, leading on Area Initiatives and Communities and The City Strategy, Localism and Partnership agendas. In 2010, she was appointed Director of Programme Development at The Mayors Fund for London, developing evidenced based programmes to combat poverty, aligning funding and commissioning joint services.

 

 

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