CEO
Duncan Howard is a mission-driven leader with extensive experience across the charity, housing, and commercial sectors. He brings a strong track record of improving lives and life chances through clear strategy, operational excellence, and collaborative leadership. Known for his ability to lead organisations through complexity and change, Duncan combines purpose, pragmatism, and innovation to deliver meaningful and lasting impact.
Duncan has held senior executive and board-level roles for over two decades, including Chief Executive of a national sports and wellbeing company and Regional Director within a large housing association. His experience spans governance, service transformation, financial stewardship, partnership building, and regulatory environments. He has led large-scale improvement programmes, secured significant public and charitable funding, and built high-performing, values-led teams focused on the people they serve.
Alongside his executive career, Duncan has chaired two boards in Social Housing and membership-based organisations, strengthening governance, supporting leadership transitions, and setting long-term strategic direction. He is deeply committed to social justice, inclusion, and environmental sustainability, and brings these principles to his leadership of ECT Charity as Chief Executive.
Outside of work, Duncan is a keen rock climber, runner, and cyclist, and remains a strong advocate for widening access to opportunity for the most marginalised and environmental sustainability.
