Leader of the Council and the Leadership Team
The role of the Leader and the Leadership Team
The Leadership Team is made up of the Leader of the Council and up to nine other councillors, known as lead members, who are selected by the Leader.
The Leadership Team has overall responsibility for the strategic direction and decision-making within the council. All decisions are published in advance and are open to scrutiny by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee and four select committees. To find out more about Leadership Team meetings and related decisions, visit our Leadership Team and Key Decisions page.
The Leadership Team is also responsible for providing Borough-wide leadership. This includes engaging with residents, communities, and our partners across the whole Borough on what their priorities are, and actively seeking out opportunities for collaboration and consultation on the Council’s policy proposals as detailed in our Council Plan.
Each Lead Member has responsibility for a defined service area or 'portfolio', as allocated by the Leader. These are detailed below.
Lead members are supported by an executive management team, the Council's Management Structure.
Councillor Elizabeth Campbell
Leader of the Council
- Council Plan direction
- Overall budget responsibility and accountability
- Overall responsibility for Grenfell commitments and legacy
- Strategy, performance, policy, communications and public affairs
- Emergency and civil contingency planning
- Driving corporate transformation and change
- Corporate services, human resources, electoral services, governance and decision making
- Liaison with Government, the Greater London Authority and London Councils
- Local and regional stakeholder liaison, strategic partnerships, and external examinations
Councillor Emma Will
Lead Member for Finance and Property, and Deputy Leader
- Revenue and capital budget planning, monitoring
- Capital budget and project delivery
- Investments, treasury management
- Commercial and income generation
- Council Tax and benefits
- Legal services
- Risk, audit, insurance, and procurement policy
- Property and facilities management
Councillor Cem Kemahli
Lead Member for Housing
- Delivering homes
- Investing in and renewing housing estates
- Housing management services
- Housing support, strategy, and policy
- Housing revenue account and business plan
- Grenfell housing support
- Lancaster West commitments
- Tackling homelessness, support for refugees and asylum seekers
- Partnerships with housing providers and private sector housing
- Representing Council on London Wide Housing Boards
Councillor Tom Bennett
Lead Member for Modernisation Change
- Digital and service transformation
- AI policy, strategy, and service use
- Council’s equality diversity and inclusion strategy and policy
- Dedicated services for Grenfell bereaved and survivors
- Grenfell community programmes
- Grenfell legacy, alongside the Leader of the Council
Councillor Sarah Addenbrooke
Lead Member for Business and Communities
- Funding for voluntary and community sectors and City Living Local Life
- The Mayoralty and Youth Council
- Consultation and community engagement
- Economic development, employment, skills, and apprenticeships
- High streets, retail space, markets, and street trading
- Special events, filming, cultural services and partnerships
- Registrars and bereavement services
- Further education, skills, and employability
Councillor Johnny Thalassites
Lead Member for Resident Services, Planning, and Enforcement
- Customer services
- Corporate health and safety
- Planning and building control
- Community safety and crime
- On street licensing, licensing enforcement, and trading standards
- Notting Hill Carnival
- Environmental health and regulation – health and safety, noise, food hygiene
- Enforcement private sector housing
- Mortuary and coroner’s services
Councillor Josh Rendall
Lead Member for Transport, Parks, and Clean Streets
- Parks, cemeteries, green spaces, and community gardens
- Transport strategy and transportation policies
- Amazing Spaces
- Leisure centres and sports facilities
- Parking fees, charges, policy and operations
- Waste management (including WRWA) and recycling
- Street cleaning, highways maintenance and street lighting
- Air quality and environmental commitments
- Lead local flooding authority
Councillor Lucy Knight
Lead Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health
- Safeguarding of vulnerable adults
- Public health policy and strategy
- Social services for adults
- Services to support the elderly and people with learning disabilities
- Mental health services in partnership with NHS and partners
- Physical disability services
- Transitions from children’s services
- Partnership working and service integration with local NHS
- Discretionary welfare provision and subsidised transport
- Chair of Health and Wellbeing Board
Councillor Catherine Faulks
Lead Member for Families and Children
- Safeguarding of vulnerable children and young people
- Support for children and young people in learning and education settings
- Support for children and young people affected by Grenfell
- Libraries and archive service
- Ensuring robust corporate parenting
- Services for schools and pupils
- Nursery schools and childcare
- Children’s centres
- Youth Services, youth justice, and Youth Offending team