Duncan Bowie is senior lecturer in spatial planning and housing at the University of Westminster and course leader on the postgraduate planning course. He has worked in senior positions for the Mayor of London, the Housing Corporation, the Association of London Government, the London Docklands Development Corporation and the London Boroughs of Newham and Lambeth. He convenes the Highbury Group on Housing Delivery, an academic/practitioner research and policy development network, is a member of the policy council of the TCPA and of the London Labour Housing Group committee. He is the author of Politics, Planning and Homes in a World City (2010) and The Radical and Socialist Tradition in British Planning (2016).