Anne Parkes

Associate Director, Arup

Anne is a sustainability consultant with 25 years’ experience working in the private, public and voluntary sector. She draws on this experience to ensure that cross-sector collaboration, stakeholder engagement and an understanding of local needs are at the heart of delivering social value in the built environment. Anne leads Arup’s Social Value and Equity Service in the UK, India, Middle East and Africa region, as well as a growing team of social value specialists across our North geography. In this role, she is supporting a wide range of clients and project teams to embed social outcomes into built environment projects throughout their lifecycle. Recent projects include developing a Social Value and Legacy Strategy for a new reservoir for Thames Water, ensuring that the transition to a low carbon electricity grid network in the UK realises its potential to drive socio-economic benefits, advising Transport Infrastructure Ireland on social procurement considerations, and leading the development of a Social Value Framework for the British Library Extension. Prior to joining Arup, Anne was Operations Director at Groundwork in the Greater Manchester city region managing a programme of community-led environmental regeneration projects. Anne sits on the Greater Manchester Social Value Network Steering Group and was Trustee at Action Together CIO for 12 years until the end of last year.