Kat Hanna has joined Avison Young as director of strategic advisory and place strategy, to support the firm’s strategic approach to placemaking, regeneration and development.
Hanna will work closely with Nick Walkley, who was promoted to principal and president of the UK business last week and Jo Davis, principal and managing director planning, development & regeneration and UK executive chair.
She will be responsible for developing public-private strategic relationships to grow the UK advisory business, with a particular focus on cities and city development.
Prior to joining Avison Young, Hanna was masterplan strategist at Lendlease, working on the over-station redevelopment of Euston in London. She has also held roles at Cushman & Wakefield and Centre for London.
Walkley said: “Avison Young has an ongoing ambition to provide innovative approaches to shaping our cities and towns in response to the wide range of accelerating factors impacting them. Kat brings with her a new way of defining and shaping urbanism that creates a positive impact on the communities we work in.
“Collaborating closely with our existing multidisciplinary teams, she will help further Avison Young’s speciality advisory services, applying her experience from client-side, large-scale urban regeneration projects to take us to the next level in terms of our consulting and regeneration profile.”
Hanna added: “Avison Young’s diverse range of public and private sector clients represent the many actors involved in urban development. I’m thrilled to be joining a business where we can support our partners in creating thoughtfully designed, inclusive and sustainable spaces.
“I am looking forward to working closely with Nick and Jo and collaborating with our specialist teams at the forefront of addressing the opportunities and challenges facing our evolving cities.”
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