Matt Leach is Chief Executive of the Built Environment Trust. From 2018 to 2025, he led major place-based funder Local Trust, where he pioneered work on civic infrastructure, social capital and long‑term neighbourhood investment, helping spark renewed interest in areas of policy that had been largely overlooked for nearly two decades. He was a founding member of the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods (ICON), recognised for influencing and informing the development of the government’s £5.8bn Pride in Place programme. He is a senior advisor to public service consultancy PPL Ltd on their new Whole of Society Resilience programme.