Dr Peter Williams is an independent consultant on housing and mortgage markets and housing policy and acts as Executive Director of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association. Since 2004, he has been chair of Thames Valley Housing Association.

In November 2006, he was appointed as a Board Member of the Governments newly formed National Housing and Planning Advice Unit. At the same time, he was appointed Chairman of Acadametrics.

From 1997 to October 2006, he was Deputy Director General of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). Prior to that he was Head of External Affairs and Research at the Building Societies Association/Council of Mortgage Lenders (1994-1997), Professor of Housing Management at the University of Wales, Cardiff, Deputy Director at the Chartered Institute of Housing and Research Fellow on housing and urban issues at the Australian National University (Urban Research Unit) and the University of Birmingham (Centre for Urban and Regional Studies).

He has previously served on the Boards of the Housing Corporation (1995 - 2002) and Housing for Wales/Tai Cymru (1989 – 1994).

With a PhD on the inner London housing market from the University of Reading, he has worked on housing market issues for over well over 30 years and is on the Editorial Boards of “Housing Studies”, the leading academic housing journal, “Roof” and “Welsh Housing Quarterly”.