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David was appointed Chief Executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority in October 2000. Prior to his appointment, he was the Authority’s Head of Finance & Resources. He is currently the Lead Officer for the English National Park Authority Chief Executives Group, with specific responsibilities for the Historic Environment and Performance Improvement.

He is a member of the BBC’s Rural Affairs Committee and a trustee of Europarc Atlantic Isles. During 2006, David chaired the Prosperity & Protection Steering Group - a body which examined and reported on the economic value of the three National Parks in Yorkshire.

David is forty seven and currently lives in Bellerby, Leyburn, North Yorkshire. He is married to Frances, with 4 children ranging from 15 to 24. These continue to provide a drain on his time and wallet. In his spare time he plays a lot of sport: football, tennis and running though a series of broken bones and very dodgy knees are a sure sign that it's time to stop!

Peter is Managing Director of Rivergreen Developments plc, responsible for many award-winning commercial and residential developments throughout the North East. It has particular experience of repairing and refurbishing listed buildings in sensitive locations, and has been recognised in this field by English Heritage, RIBA, the Civic Trust and both local and central government. Rivergreen is also well known for its contribution to regeneration, with successful projects undertaken in several disadvantaged areas including Amble, Sunderland, Consett and Hartlepool. The company’s main office at Aykley Heads in Durham received, amongst other awards, the 2007 RICS Sustainability Project of the Year, and in the same year Peter gained an Outstanding Achievement Award from Constructing Excellence North East.

Peter studied economics at Warwick University and gained an MBA with distinction from Durham University in 1989. Prior to founding Rivergreen in 1991, he worked for Bechtel Corporation of San Francisco for 12 years, and has wide experience in the management of large, complex projects in several countries.

He is a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of County Durham, a former governor of Neville’s Cross Primary School in Durham, and a member of the Reform Club.

Brian joined the Board in 2001 and currently chairs the Audit and Remuneration Committee. In addition, he holds a number of trusteeships in Cumbria, acts as internal auditor for his parish council and external auditor for several local charities. Born in 1944, Brian was raised in Sunderland and educated at Bede Grammar School. He spent 36 years with Nat West Bank in the North East, London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Cumbria, working in Domestic Banking and Corporate Finance Divisions.

Since 1983 he has lived in Castle Carrock, Brampton, with his wife Marian, a retired secondary school Special Needs teacher. Their three children and families are based in Dundee, Edinburgh and Bristol. Interests include Rotary International, Carlisle Talking Newspaper for the Blind and The Watson Hall in Castle Carrock. In his spare time Brian enjoys golf and curling.

Alan is now retired, after spending his working life in the housing sector. Following working in New Towns, Local Government (including a period as Assistant Director of Housing at Newcastle) and various housing associations, he became chief executive of Home Group, formerly known as North Housing, in 1976. During his 21 years there, the business grew from 18000 homes to rent to over 40000. Alan had a long involvement with the Chartered Institute of Housing and was president of the Institute in 1982/83. He was a member of the inquiry into British Housing, chaired by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, which reported in 1985 and 1991, and a non-executive director on the board of Barratt Developments plc from 1998 until 2006. He is on the boards of a number of charities and is Chairman of Affinity Sutton Group Ltd.

As managing director of Classic Masonry Ltd, chairman of Historic Property Restoration Ltd and managing director of Bespoke Concrete, Mike runs a leading company in the stonemasonry industry and one of the leading conservation companies in the UK. In addition to these roles, he is an active member of Stone Federation Great Britain (where he was president for 2 years) and the Worshipful Company of Masons, and has sat on various working groups within CITB-ConstructionSkills. He is also chairman of the National Heritage Training Group.

Mike was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne, and is married with 6 children.

Chris Mullin was the Member of Parliament for Sunderland South from 1987 to 2010. He was a minister in three government departments and a former chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee. He is currently chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund for the North East.

Rob Pickard LLD PhD DipBldgCons BSc MRICS IHBC is Emeritus Professor in Built Environment and Heritage Conservation at Northumbria University. He has been a technical consultant to the Council of Europe on cultural heritage issues since 1994, including co-ordinating a European expert group - the Legislative Support Task Force - for legal, policy and institutional reform, the integration of planning and heritage protection, heritage-led urban rehabilitation and funding mechanisms to support the built heritage. His most recent work has been through the Council of Europe’s Regional Programmes for South-East Europe (in the Balkans) and for the Black Sea and South Caucasus (Kviv initiative: pilot project on the rehabilitation of culture heritage in historic towns).

He is also author and editor of several books, including Conservation in the Built Environment (1996), Policy and Law in Heritage Conservation (2001), Management of Historic Centres (2001), European Cultural Heritage: Volume II: A Review of Policy and Practice (2002), Integrated Management Tools in the Heritage of South-East Europe (2008), Funding the Architectural Heritage: A Guide to Policies and Examples (2009) and Guidance on the development of legislation and administration systems in the field of cultural heritage (2011).