Cooke & Arkwright

Profile

Michael Lawley

Managing Director

Michael has been with Cooke & Arkwright since 1981. He became a partner in 1988 and a director when the firm incorporated in 1991. He is now the managing director of the firm and also the director within the Cardiff office with responsibility for consultancy and development advice, including strategic residential land matters. He also has overall responsibility for large scale asset valuations. He regularly receives arbitration and independent expert appointments from the president of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Michael is a governor of the University of Glamorgan and a director of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He is vice chairman of the RICS Wales Council and also sits on the Programme Board for Planning: Delivering for Wales. He is the private sector appointee to the Land, Property and Urban Regeneration Working Group of the South-East Wales Economic Forum and is a member of the CBI Wales Council.

He has served on the National Assembly for Wales Panel of Independent Assessors on Public Appointments.