Speaker profile: Maira Adebowale-Schwarte

Maria Adebowale-Schwarte is CEO of Foundation for Future London. She is a placemaking and grants strategist with over 25 years cross-sector experience in heritage, human and environmental rights, improving urban places and green spaces. Maria’s book The Place Making Factor explores the role of philanthropy in unlocking siloed approaches to funding.  She is the founder of Living Space Project, an Ambassador for the Design Council and an Inaugural Fellow at the Centre for Knowledge Equity, Skoll Centre, University of Oxford. Maria also sits on several governance boards and advisory groups that hold a strong place-led, sustainable development, culture, and heritage focus including National Lottery Heritage Fund, and  Mayor of London’s Sustainable Development Commission, leading on social value regeneration, and City of London’s Culture and Commerce Taskforce.