Saurabh Bhandari was appointed Director, Property Delivery and Transformation, within the Office of Government Property (Cabinet Office), in May 2024. 

Saurabh leads strategic initiatives to modernise and optimise the Government Property Portfolio, with a particular focus on transforming property investments and assets into catalysts for  innovation & growth, that create public value. 

Saurabh leads the drive to improve the condition of the government estate. He is responsible for the ongoing improvement of facilities management in government buildings,  including modernising infrastructure to enhance safety, energy efficiency and operational effectiveness across the public sector.  As a precursor to transforming assets and investments, he will also provide leadership in using data and analytics to enable decisions across the government estate. 

Having trained as a Chartered Architect  and a Programme manager he brings multi-sector experience across real estate, social and economic infrastructure. Saurabh has extensive experience at senior positions on high-profile, national and international property programmes in a career spanning across multiple market sectors and both public and private investment led development programmes. 

He is a Fellow of the Association of Project Management and a graduate of the Major Project Leadership Academy at Oxford University. 

A keen reader and amateur runner, Saurabh lives in Manchester with his wife and two children.