Terrie Alafat

Terrie Alafat CBE is a Non-Executive Director of Grosvenor Hart Homes.

Terrie retired from being Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) in 2019. Before joining CIH in 2015 Terrie was director of housing in the then-Department for Communities and Local Government, with overall policy responsibility for the supply and management of housing across all tenures, housing growth, and homelessness prevention and support. As part of this, she also led on sponsorship of the Homes and Communities Agency. She worked in the civil service covering various housing policies and programmes from 2003.

Terrie was given a CBE in 2013 for services to homeless people.

She holds several non-executive positions including Chair of Riverside and Hestia, Deputy Chair of Crisis and Trustee roles on the Nationwide Foundation and SASC. She also chairs the Customer Scrutiny Board for Mears plc.