Olympic property expert Ralph Luck has moved to the academic world.

The former Maidstone Grammar School student is the new real estate

development director for King’s College London, looking after 40 years’ experience in property development and regeneration.

development projects across the college’s five campuses.

Mr Luck, whose family still live in the Maidstone area, has more than

In 2006, he became property director at the Olympic Delivery Authority and the Weymouth sailing venue, as well as procurement of the London Partnerships, the urban regeneration agency that looked after Chatham Maritime. He also worked on the Millennium Dome, its conversion to the a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and has been education sector as students’ expectations of their study experience reach new heights under the new tuition fee regime.”

(ODA), assembling land for Olympic Park.

He has been involved in the delivery and sale of the Olympic Village

2012 broadcast and media centre.

Before joining the ODA, Mr Luck spent more than 11 years at English

O2, and other regeneration projects on the Greenwich Peninsula.

In 2004 he received the OBE for services to urban regeneration. He is

chairman of the British Urban Regeneration Association.

Mr Luck said: “It is an exciting time to be working in the higher