Judges Profile
Louise
Townsend
head of social value
,Morgan Sindall
Louise has worked for Morgan Sindall for over 10 years and has spent 20 years in the construction industry. She is Head of Social Value for the Construction and Infrastructure division of Morgan Sindall Group and leads its Social Value and Responsible Procurement strategies. A strong advocate for improving the image of the industry, Louise promotes positive disruption to reach under-represented groups in the industry by applying purposeful EDI, Social Value, procurement, apprenticeship and stakeholder engagement programmes that deliver change. She is active in many industry-wide improvement groups, including the British Standard for Valuing People (EDI), a study commissioned by the ACE to identify the impacts of procurement on diversity in the workforce and was the catalyst for several public sector Social Value procurement charters in local government.