Liz Peace began her career as a civil servant with the Ministry of Defence and later became a key player in the team that set up the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency.

In 2002 Liz became Chief Executive of the British Property Federation and has since managed to change the Government’s perception of the commercial property industry, to establish it as a key voice in policy debate, to dissuade the Government from legislating on commercial leases, to win innumerable changes to planning and tax legislation and, working as part of a pan-industry alliance, to persuade the Government to introduce Real Estate Investment Trusts.

Most recently Liz played a key role in campaigning for the abandonment of Planning Gain Supplement. Liz was awarded a CBE in the 2008 New Year Honours list for services to the property industry.