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New CEO appointed for the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP)

02 June 2013

by Richard Forster

The International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) has appointed Ole Stilling as its new CEO, taking over from the retiring Derek Martin.

“I am pleased to welcome Ole Stilling onto our team,” said Flemming Borreskov, IFHP President. “The IFHP needs a CEO who will be able to continue to develop a strategic focus, to further our agenda and enhance the organisation and its relevance.”

Ole Stilling brings with him extensive experience of sustainable urban development and engineering and planning in both the private and public sector. He comes from a position as Senior Market Director in the international consulting firm COWI.

“The opportunity to join an international organisation dealing with my professional core interests was engaging,” said Stilling. “The IFHP has a huge potential as a platform for its members and professionals within the field of urban issues and housing. I am looking forward to working with the team to continue the proud 100 year legacy and to develop the organisation leading it into the next era.”

Outgoing CEO and Secretary General, Derek Martin, has been at IFHP since the end of 2007, and it was his task to initiate the process of transforming IFHP into an international knowledge broker in the fields of housing, urban development and planning. As well as building a more dynamic website and other communication technologies and putting together a new strategic plan, Martin was able to diversify IFHP’s activities, on location and online, as well as increasing openness with the membership and developing more active partnerships.

“Given the noticeable effect of the economic and financial crisis on membership and funding, coupled with the realisation that the job of modernisation and transformation needed considerably more resources than were available if IFHP was to ‘go it alone’, we were lucky to find that one of our important corporate members, Realdania, was willing to invest in reinforcing the process of transformation,” said Martin. “I am happy to be passing on the organisation to Ole Stilling, who will continue the always challenging job under essentially different circumstances and in a different location, Copenhagen.”

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