Mayor and Cabinet

Mayor

Liam Shrivastava

Lewisham has a directly elected Mayor. Liam Shrivastava was elected 7 May 2026. The Mayor appoints a Cabinet to lead on decision making across the Council.

To get in touch with Liam email liam.shrivastava@lewisham.gov.uk.

Responsibilities  

• Overall budget, strategy and policy responsibility
• Bakerloo Line Extension
• London Councils, Local Government Association and key stakeholder relationships
• Local Strategic Partnership (LSP)
• Communications
• Civic Events
• Mayor's Charity
• Armed Forces Covenant
• Legal services
• Police accountability

Deputy Mayor and Cabinet Member for Finance, Resources and Economic Development

Cllr Rudi Schmidt

Responsibilities as Deputy Mayor and Cabinet Member for Finance, Resources and Economic Development 

• Council budget
• Cost of Living
• Revenue collection and benefits
• Community wealth building
• Pensions
• Ethical procurement and contracting
• Democratic and electoral services
• Income Maximisation
• Council Financial Stability
• Human resources and organisational development
• Modern Day Slavery
• Crisis Resilience Fund and Cash First Approach
• Food Justice
• Inward investment
• Local economic development and inclusive growth

Strategy, Performance and Digital Transformation

Cllr Ade Adewunmi

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Responsibilities

• IT & Digital Services
• Digital Transformation
• Internal audit
• Customer services and complaints
• Emergency planning and resilience
• Information Governance
• Corporate Governance
• Service Transformation
• Birmingham & Lewisham African and Caribbean Health Inequalities Review (BLACHIR)
• Equalities

Children, SEND, Youth Empowerment and Culture

Cllr Rotimi Skyers

Responsibilities

• Primary & Secondary School Performance
• School admissions, attendance, inclusion and school place planning
• Special Educational Needs
• Early years education and childcare
• Early help and prevention, including childen's centres and family support
• Child protection and contextual safeguarding
• Corporate parenting for looked after children and care leavers
• Youth services
• Child poverty
• Anti-racist education
• Support for children in need
• Youth violence
• Youth justice (including Youth Offending Service)
• Young Mayor's programme
• Arts, culture and heritage
• Interfaith working

Inclusive Regeneration, Planning and Housing Delivery

Cllr Daniel Dream

Responsibilities

• Social Housing Building Programme
• Planning
• Inclusive and Sustainable Regeneration
• Planning Enforcement
• Strategic Assets
• Evening and night-time economy
• Placemaking
• Major Infrasturcture

Communities, Sanctuary and Healing

Cllr Hau-Yu Tam

Responsibilities

• Sanctuary borough programme
• Bereavement services
• Violence against women and girls
• Libraries
• Refugee resettlement and migrant support
• Trauma-informed working across services
• Community development
• Community centres
• Grants programmes
• Community and Resident Engagement
• NCIL Grants
• Windrush Community Advisory Panel
• LGBTQ+ inclusion
• Anti-racist policymaking

Safer Homes, Homelessness and Housing Services

Cllr Natalie Thomas

Responsibilities

• Housing need, including lettings and allocations policy
• Repairs
• Homelessness and Temporary Accommodation
• Landlord licensing and enforcement
• Private rented sector regulation
• Relationship with housing providers including housing associations
• Gypsies and Travellers
• Renters Rights Act
• Regulatory Compliance including Awaab's Law
• Major Works and Retrofit

Health, Wellbeing and Adult Social Care

Cllr Samantha Gardiner

Responsibilities

• Adult Social Care, including care home and at-home provision and quality assurance
• Primary care
• Mental health
• Health & Wellbeing Board
• Health and social care integration
• Adult safeguarding
• Joint commissioning
• Supporting people
• Health services for LGBT+ residents
• Older people, including representation, active citizenship, combating isolation, housing, technology, aids and adaptations
• Public health
• Lewisham Disabled People's Commission
• Preventative Healthcare
• Social Prescribing

Environment, Nature, Transport and Climate Action

Cllr Corin Ashwell

Responsibilities

• Environment and climate change
• Air quality
• Transport, including walking and cycling
• Highways
• Parking strategy and enforcement
• Recycling and waste reduction
• Street cleaning and fly tipping
• Green Participatory Budgeting
• Sports & Leisure
• Rights of Nature
• Lewisham Biodiversity Partnership
• Renewable energy, including district heat networks
• Street trees
• Parks, green spaces and trees
• EV Charging

Workers, Business and Skills

Cllr Shireen Asaw

Responsibilities

• Adult education, including Adult Learning Lewisham
• Employment
• Mayor's Apprenticeship programme
• Business and retail support
• Markets
• Social enterprise
• Higher education
• Further education
• High Streets
• Living Wage, Living Hours and Worker's Rights
• Trade Unions
• Environmental health and food safety
• Trading standards
• Local skills development strategy
• CCTV
• Regulatory services
• Anti-social behaviour

Champions

• Active Travel Champion - Cllr Laura Sessions
• Arts, Heritage and History Champion - Cllr Fergus Navaratnam-Blair
• Migrant Champion - Cllr Wellington Gil
• Disabled People’s Champion - Cllr Maria McKenna
• Night-time Economy, Hospitality and Pub Champion - Cllr Heather Farnworth
• Youth Champion - Cllr Hibaaq Aden
• Wellbeing Champion - Cllr Nick Torry