David O’Leary is an Executive Director of the Home Builders Federation and leads on policy matters, research and government relations. He joined HBF in 2013 and became a board member in 2023. He has led on a range of work including the development of policy proposals to address the long-term decline of SMEs in the sector. More recently, David represented HBF in negotiations with the Government on the Building Safety Self-Remediation Pledge which was subsequently signed more than 50 developers and headed up engagement with the Competition and Markets Authority through the course of its 12-month Market Study on Housebuilding during 2023/24. This work included authoring a 75-year history of the home building industry.
Before joining HBF a decade ago he held a range of roles, advising Conservative frontbench politicians on housing and culture policy and spent time in local government where he worked on government relations, business rate reform and housing policy.