Lynda Rawsthorne was appointed Government Head of Property Profession and Director, Property Capability, Strategy & Standards, in August 2023, and was elected to the RICS Governing Council in January 2025.

Lynda, as head of the Government Property Profession, represents the community of property professionals across government. She provides professional leadership across a diverse range of government departments and arms-length bodies which deliver the government’s property ambitions.

Lynda is responsible for the Government Property Strategy and the Government Property Functional Standard. The strategy sets out the government’s plans for a public sector estate for public benefit, ensuring it enables the best possible public services, is efficient and sustainable and supports the government’s levelling up ambitions. The Functional Standard sets expectations for how government property is acquired, managed and disposed of.

Lynda has over 25 years’ professional experience across the property lifecycle including valuation, managing estates as well as delivering transformational and construction-based programmes. A Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Chartered Institution of Building and the Association of Project Management, Lynda is a graduate of the Major Project Leadership Academy at the University of Oxford. She advises the School of the Environment and the Built Environment at New Bucks University.