Susanna Lyons

CEO, AHBRA

Susanna is the Chief Executive Officer of the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority (AHBRA). The new statutory regulator seeks to support stronger governance, financial management and reporting, property and asset management, and tenancy management by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), with a focus on safeguarding the significant public investment being made in the delivery of social housing by AHBs.

Susanna is responsible for the day-to-day management of the AHBRA, ensuring an effective organisational structure with capacity to deliver a regulatory framework including registration, standards for AHBs, monitoring and assessing of compliance, education and guidance, and the collection and publication of information.

Susanna has over 30 years of experience in risk, financial management, strategy and governance. She spent five years with the Regulation Office in the Housing Agency, focusing on the provision of voluntary regulation. Prior to that Susanna spent 25 working for a number of US multinationals with a focus on finance and risk.