John Cross
Chief Executive, bpha, and Chair, National Housing Federation

John has been Chief Executive of bpha since 1995 and was appointed to the Board in 2004. 

John has twice been a member of the National Housing Federation Board. He chaired its Housing Finance Committee and then its Investment and Regeneration Committee, and was elected Chair in October 2006 for a three-year term. More locally, John chairs the Bedford Partnership Board (the local strategic partnership) and is an active member of Renaissance Bedford, a partnership of public and private sector organisations supporting the delivery of the Government’s sustainable communities plan in the Bedford area.  

John was previously Chief Executive of Swaythling Housing Society in Hampshire where he oversaw a major expansion of the association before he left to join bpha in 1995.

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