Cambridge University Land Society is an informal alumni society which was formed over 60 years ago with two objectives:
- to give an opportunity for members to meet each other, to make and renew friendships and to foster amongst them a spirit of good fellowship and co-operation;
- to act as a link between members from within and outside the Department of Land Economy of the University, and more recently the Department of Architecture, and to provide opportunities for the exchange of views upon and discussion of matters of interest.
We have more than 1,000 members who bring together a diversity of experience and interests. Some left Cambridge in the 1950s, others graduated last year, and some are current students of the Land Economy Department, and the Department of Architecture. Many members of the Society are in senior positions in their profession, while others are just starting their careers.
The majority are or have been Chartered Surveyors, in major West End and provincial practices, the financial institutions and in smaller or more specialised firms. Many other members work in sectors associated with property – for example, in the financial sector, architectural practices, consultancy, business, the academic world and the public sector.
Members will join other alumni who have achieved senior positions in the commercial property, legal, and rural land professions as well as leaders in public companies, local, and national government bodies, and in senior positions in the City of London. The Society provides high quality networking opportunities as well as some excellent social events with fellow members throughout the UK and occasionally from overseas.
Each year the Society holds at least 20 business, and social events including briefing series on Architecture, Commercial, Global Economy, ESG and Sustainability, Urban Regeneration, Rural Regeneration and Real Estate Finance.
To view the most up to date events calendar, please visit our website.
Committee
Primary Contact
- Ms Alexandra Young
President
- Mr Daniel Nicholson (Magdalene College 1991)
Treasurer
- Mr Erik Ruane (Gonville & Caius College 1979)
Honorary Secretary
- Miss Lauren Fendick (Queens' College 2003)
Committee Member
- Mr Geoffrey Southern (Downing College 1993)
- Mrs Louise Sherwin (Girton College 2001)
- Dr Werner Baumker (Wolfson College 2005)
- David Howarth (Clare College 1978)
- Mr Roddy Houston (Peterhouse 1986)
- Mr James Lai (Wolfson College 2004)
- Mr Colm Lauder (Wolfson College 2010)
- Mr Noel Manns OBE (Pembroke College 1977)
- Mr Rod McAllister (Girton College 1981)
- Mr Dominic Reilly (Gonville & Caius College 1975)
- Mr James Stevens (Christ's College 2002)
- Mr Brian Waters (St John's College 1963)
- Mr James Webb (Hughes Hall 2013)
- Mr Charles Stoneham (St Catharine's College 2013)
Membership Secretary
- Mr Robert Cashmore MBE (Wolfson College 2007)
Vice-President
- Mrs Ami Kotecha (Wolfson College 1989)
- Mr Aubrey Adams FRICS FCA OBE (St John's College 1967)
Group contacts can email the alumni networks team to request an update to this page.