Kathy Jones
Chair, Kathy Jones Advisory
Personal Biography
I have 35 years experience working alongside and within the development industry through providing executive level support and advice on major infrastructure projects, mixed use developments, precinct origination and social infrastructure projects. I have founded several successful businesses both in Australia and the UK which deliver stakeholder and community engagement communications, strategies and tactics for projects and people working in the built environment, including both private and public sector clients and Boards. My roles now tend to be non executive and range across a number of Advisory Boards all working in the built environment.
I have worked with most of NSW’s asset owning and planning policy agencies and a large number of LGAs over those 35 years under both Labor and Coalition governments. This experience is replicated in the UK through my business there.
I have undertaken a number of leadership roles in a voluntary capacity over the years including establishing and chairing the NSW Property Council’s Precincts Committee which I have recently stepped down from after four years. In this same context I have participated in a range of research projects including most recently the Committee for Sydney’s “”Role of Government in Precincts”” paper.
Support Statement
I have intimate knowledge of the development sector both from a government and commercial perspective in a range of jurisdictions and a strong commitment to driving innovation to achieve the best outcomes from the place where governments, investors and the community intersect in the built environment.
This knowledge has come from working in and around the sector for 35 years through my various successful stakeholder engagement and communications businesses in both Australia and the UK.
I have also provided committee leadership, research input and executive support to a number of relevant membership organisations including the UDIA, the Property Council of Australia, the Australian British Chamber of Commerce and the Committee for Sydney’s Innovation District Alliance.
I have the energy, enthusiasm and networks in Australia and the UK to make a valuable contribution to the UDIA’s research and events programs. My specific areas of current interest, building on my extensive experience, includes the use of Artificial Intelligence in consultation and policy making, the role of social infrastructure in precinct development, creating social value and using international best practice to unlock some of the issues which seem to plague policy making for the industry.