Dr Charlotte Carpenter
Lay Member of Court
(Date first appointed: 2021)
Charlotte is Executive Director of Skills, Inclusion and Public Service Reform at the North East Combined Authority (NECA).
Charlotte began her career in the Civil Service Fast Stream, where she undertook roles in several high-profile areas in the Scottish Government. These included: working as a member of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Scotland Bill team; acting as the secretariat for an Independent Review on the Retention of Organs at Postmortem; and supporting the economic recovery measures in response to the Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak in Scotland.
Charlotte has a passion for housing’s role in the economic and social regeneration of the North East. This was borne from senior roles with One NorthEast (where she led on the development of the North East regional Economic Strategy) and The Northern Way - a precursor to the Northern Powerhouse.
She joined the social housing sector in 2008, working for Home Group as Director of Strategy, Policy and Communications. Charlotte was also Executive Director for Growth and Business Development at Karbon Homes from May 2017 until she took up her role with NECA in 2025.
Charlotte is an alumnus of Cambridge and York universities and holds a PhD in Medieval History.
She is a member of the CBI North East Council, the CBI’s National Infrastructure Board, and the Chartered Institute of Housing’s Policy Advisory Committee. She also holds a CaCHE Fellowship exploring the role that housing associations can play in the Foundation Economies of ‘Left Behind Places’.
Outside work Charlotte is an adventurous and prolific traveller, and an enthusiastic runner with Tyne Bridge Harriers.