Gerald Cary-Elwes
Gerald Cary-Elwes is an experienced consultant involved with the setting up of major organisations in various sectors. A major player in the regeneration field, he is able to bring together leaders in Governmental, Local Authority and Private Sector Organisations in the UK and the wider developed world, both in his capacity as a business consultant and developer and by bringing together partners in new ventures.
Gerald successfully formed the British Urban Regeneration Association in 1990, raising considerable sums of sponsorship support and membership income, formulating effective and lasting networks, thus enabling BURA to become the leading independent regeneration forum in the UK, with equally significant international links.
Prior to his work establishing BURA, Gerald worked in the retail sector (including Harrods and Harvey Nichols), and then as a Conference Director, organising events nationally and internationally, on freight transportation, property, urban regeneration and food. This included conferences to accompany trade fairs and exhibitions in London, Madrid, Brussels, the Middle East, Chicago and Singapore.
Gerald is now Chief Executive of International Regeneration (developed from Regeneration @3), an association looking at global regeneration challenges and innovative solutions.
International Regeneration provides a network of contacts worldwide so that policymakers, practitioners and stakeholders can benefit from a global learning culture, exchanging information, knowledge, experience and expertise to promote economic, social, physical, environmental and cultural change.
Current involvment includes marketing the UK’s regeneration expertise to emerging and developing countries in East and Central Europe. Gerald has led outgoing UK missions to Bulgaria and Poland. He recently collaborated with European Renaissance in a study visit to the Czech Republic.
International Regeneration also organises exchange visits between countries in order to develop better mechanisms and processes, supporting the sustainable regeneration of towns, cities, rural areas, regions, communities and neighbourhoods, and with an emphasis on the learning process on regeneration issues as part of national and international agendas and priorities.