Christopher Howes

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Sir Christopher Howes KCVO, CB, FRICS, FRIBA, DLitt, MPhil, BSc (born 30 January 1942) is a leading British chartered surveyor, property manager, and business man.

Educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Cambridge University, Howes’s main career has been in property management for the British royal family.

For eleven years he was Chief Executive of the Crown Estate in the United Kingdom, valued in 2006 at three billion pounds. It includes most of Central London, over half of all the United Kingdom's forests, hundreds of farms and other rural estates, and the whole of the British seabed between the coast and the twelve-mile international limit. In 2006, the annual income of the Crown Estate was around one hundred million pounds.

Both before and since managing the Crown Estate, Howes has pursued a wide variety of business and other interests (see below), including charitable and academic work.

1 Career outline
2 Honours
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1982 to 1989: Second Commissioner of the Crown Estate
1989 to 2000: Chief Executive of the Crown Estate
1993 to 2005: Member of Council of the Duchy of Lancaster
1998 to 2004: Non-executive director of the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society
2005 to date: Non-executive Chairman of the Barclays Bank Property Finance Team
Member of the Prince’s Council of the Duchy of Cornwall
Director of the Howard de Walden Estate
Director of the Colville Estate Ltd
Director of Dow Investments Ltd
Member of the Court of the University of East Anglia
Advisor to the Institute of Continuing Professional Development
Trustee of the Christopher Hepworth Organs Trust