Philip Davies is one of the country’s leading heritage experts, a historian and a planner, with his own international heritage consultancy. A former Planning and Development Director at English Heritage, he has been at the forefront of managing change to some of the most important and historic buildings and places in London, the UK and the Commonwealth for almost 50 years.

He is a Trustee of numerous conservation charities in the UK and overseas. A tireless global champion for heritage conservation, and an international authority on the architecture and monuments of the British Empire and Commonwealth, he is the founder and Chairman of the Commonwealth Heritage Forum which provides expert advice, guidance and training on heritage issues across the Commonwealth.

Philip is also the best-selling author of 13 books on London, India and Burma. Described as ‘a publishing phenomenon’, Lost London 1870-1945 was shortlisted for the prestigious Spears Book Prize, and it remains one of the best-selling books on London ever published.