Liz Green has been a councillor in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames since 2002, holding various positions, including Leader of the Council and Leader of the Opposition. She has had portfolio responsibility for environment, education, children's services, assets, HR, emergency planning, partnerships and voluntary sector over this time and been chair of Audit, Governance and Scrutiny committee . Currently she is Chair of the Planning Committee.

Liz is Chair of the LGA Culture, Tourism and Sport board. She is also an LGA peer mentor with experience of peer reviews, training and mentoring. She was previously vice chair of the Improvement and Innovation board and the Children’s and Young People’s board.

She is part of the facilitator team for the flagship Leadership Academy training programme and works as a trainer/facilitator/coach across local government.