Lendlease Appoints New Head of Offices

29 January 2018

Leading property and infrastructure group, Lendlease, has appointed Sherin Aminossehe as Head of Offices.

Sherin joins Lendlease from Whitehall, where she held the dual role of Chief Executive Officer at the Government Property Unit, Cabinet Office and Head of Property Profession for the Civil Service. As part of her work for the largest owner of real estate in the UK, Sherin was charged with leading, devising and executing the property strategy for the sitting government, which included working with government departments to look at how they could use their portfolios effectively to create growth. Through the creation of the One Public Estate programme, she also been a strong part of the Government’s social change agenda with a particular focus on creating more homes and jobs.

Sherin started her career as an architect in the private sector at Farrell’s before moving to HOK, where she worked on large regeneration projects, including complex infrastructure masterplanning of large brown and greenfield areas for schemes in Jeddah, Bahrain and St Petersburg.

In her new role as Head of Offices, Sherin will be in charge of shaping some of the company’s largest regeneration projects, including the £2.4bn International Quarter London in Stratford.
Commenting on Sherin’s appointment, Jonathan Emery, Managing Director of Property, Europe at Lendlease, said: "We're very pleased to be welcoming Sherin to our senior team. The sheer breadth and scale of her experience speaks for itself, and we look forward to seeing the expertise she will bring to our projects at a time of huge growth for the company."

Lendlease's new Head of Offices, Sherin Aminossehe, said: "I'm very excited to be joining Lendlease with its commercial strength as well as social conscience and look forward to creating places and buildings on the ground that will make a difference."