Miguel was appointed GPA Head of Sustainability in March 2020. As Head of Sustainability, Miguel is accountable for the environmental performance of a shared and sustainable office portfolio for civil servants associated with Places for Growth and Levelling Up. Miguel leads the Sustainability Function on a range of capital projects across the UK intended to transform the civil service and to provide a smaller, better and greener public estate. All these programmes are supported by Sustainability colleagues responsible for design, technical standards and assurance, climate change adaptation, IEMA accredited training, ISO 14001 environmental management, Net Zero and social value.

Miguel joined GPA on loan from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, where as Head of Sustainability Major Projects (formally Chief of Staff in Operations), he was responsible for BEIS’s refurbishment office programme including the exemplar scheme in 1 Victoria Street, London.

Prior to joining BEIS, Miguel had a successful 16-year career in the Public and Private sectors, including 8 years as a UK delegate on an EU Committee setting the standards, tests and consumer safety limits for drug residues in meat.

Miguel is an experienced project and programme leader with a strong commercial acumen and an extensive track record in organisational transformation in facilities management, education and primary healthcare.

He is a Member of the Board Appointments Committee of the UK’s Better Buildings Partnership and Director of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment certified Training Centre providing CPD for the government Sustainability profession.  He champions Sustainability training from workforce level to the Gold Standard of Chartered Environmentalist.