Change does not come easily at the RIBA. Lasting change of the kind necessary for the profession of architecture to become diverse, equitable, sustainable and prosperous was always going to be impossible under the old regime of governance.

This saw presidents come and go with various agendas, often at loggerheads with one another so that council, board and executive team were forever and ineffectually pulled this way and that. I was the last RIBA president under a system set up to fail – and that’s why we changed it.

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