Michela is a Sustainability Business Partner at Wates. Passionate and a strong advocate of sustainability, a major focus of Michela’s current work is leading Wates Strategic approach to sustainability in London, South England and Northern Home Counties, delivering on the Group ESG commitments, which are supported by SBTi short and long-term targets. Previously, she developed and led Mount Anvil’s first ESG Strategy at both company and project level, and covered a nationwide role at Stride Treglown, as Head of NZC&Passivhaus, advising a wide range of public and private clients on sustainability and overseeing the carbon aspects of projects across sectors.

Michela writes regularly on current issues and have recently contributed to the FutureBuild panel discussion on “Improving productivity and design quality through DfMA”, the NLA panel discussion on “Technical Competency Briefing: Future Homes Standard”, the Climate Action Relay panel discussions on “Barriers to delivering NZC in regional markets” and “Collaborate to Eliminate – working together towards NZC”, the Planning Portal Annual Conference panel discussion “Delivering NZ in Construction”, the University of Plymouth round-table on “Leadership for Positive Change”, FORMA seminar “Embedding ESG in Real Estate, from Investment to POE”, the CIOB panel discussion on “Net Zero and The Future of Residential Real Estate” and Futurebuild “A Net Zero Carbon Future: Regulation and Beyond”.