James Tickell has been a Director of Campbell Tickell since 2004. In that time, he has carried out a wide range of strategic, governance, recruitment and policy projects. His first major assignment was as Interim Chief Executive of Shaftesbury Housing Group. Since then, projects of note include:

• Conduct of a statutory inquiry for the Housing Corporation, and of various other confidential inquiries for housing associations
• Governance and strategic reviews of housing associations in supervision
• Writing the NCVO Code of Governance, and the Charity Commission's flagship guidance for trustees
• Conduct of numerous governance reviews, board appraisals and related exercises
• Various policy and research assignments for the National Housing Federation. Housing Corporation and other bodies.

From 1993 to 2004, James Tickell was the Deputy Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation, the representative body for some 1,400 charitable and non-profit providers of social housing in England, which own or manage around 1.9 million homes. He was responsible at various times for a wide range of strategies and activities, including:

• The Federation's governance code and work with board members;
• Communications, corporate ID and branding;
• Membership services and liaison with new transfer organisations;
• Company secretary functions, including a major review of the Federation's own governance;
• Communication of the iN business for neighbourhoods initiative;
• A major overhaul and expansion of the Federation's regional network;
• The Federation's Regulation Panel, and associated regulatory issues and projects.

Before joining the Federation in 1993, he was the registrar of the Housing Corporation, a senior post in the department responsible for the regulation and supervision of housing associations. There he dealt with a range of supervision cases, consents, and registration of LSVTs.

In 1992, he won a Harkness Fellowship, and spent the year living in Chicago, and travelling in the United States, to study community development corporations and urban development.

Previously, James worked as housing director at The Refugee Council, and in supported housing and development for a north London housing association. He is an architect by training, and has written various travel books on the Inca and Maya civilisations of the Americas.

See key projects undertaken by James.