Chris Wilkinson, principal of Wilkinson Eyre Architects, has been appointed as a commissioner at English Heritage.

Wilkinson, whose practice has twice won the Stirling Prize, with the Gateshead Millennium Bridge and Rotherham Magna centre, will work on the decision-making committee until 2011.

He is also a member of EH and Cabe’s urban panel and chair of the Southwark design review panel. Simon Thurley, EH chief executive, said: “I am extremely pleased to welcome Chris Wilkinson onto our commission. As an architect with an international reputation he will bring a wealth of expertise and experience.”