Wassyl Abdessemed joined PEI’s research ＆ analytics team at the start of 2022, having previously worked in private asset management research. Wassyl looks after PEI’s institutional investor research globally and oversees number of rankings and reports, including the Global Investor rankings.

Alberto Agazzi is the Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Generali Real Estate SGR since 2015. GRE SGR is the real estate investment management company of the Generali Group, managing more than 20 real estate funds, with an AUM of 18 bln, focused on the main Global Markets in equity and debt transactions. Alberto joined the Generali Group in 2005 as an investment manager for the Italian real estate portfolio.

In 2009 he became Head of Fund Management for Generali Real Estate SGR, before taking over as the Managing Director of Generali Real Estate – Italy four years later. Prior to joining Generali, he had worked in the real estate advisory team of Mediobanca, and as a project manager for an engineering company. Alberto holds a Master in Business Administration from SDA Bocconi and a Degree in Building Engineering from the Politecnico of Milan.

Generali Real Estate

Generali Real Estate S.p.A. is one of the world’s leading real estate asset managers with over €39 billion of assets under management as of end 2022. It leverages the expertise of more than 370 professionals, with operating units located in the main European cities.

The company’s integrated business model covers the full scope of asset management activities and the entire real estate value chain. A series of cross-border investment vehicles, managed by the specialized asset manager Generali Real Estate SGR S.p.A., aims to create long-term value for investors with a core/core +profile by investing in assets characterized by good locations, high liquidity and strong underlying leasing dynamics. The portfolio under management comprises a unique mix of historical and modern properties, ranging from landmark buildings to new architectural masterpieces, which has enabled the company to develop best-in-class skills in the fields of technological innovation, sustainability and urban development.

Generali Real Estate is part of the Generali Investments ecosystem of asset management firms.

Jonas is Deputy Managing Partner at Slättö a fast-growing Nordic real estate private equity investor. He provides strategic leadership and oversees various aspects of the business, including strategy and business development, investor relations, legal and compliance, financing and talent management. He is also a member of the Investment Committee.

Prior to Slättö, Jonas served as CFO and CIO at Hembla (previously D. Carnegie & Co), which is majority owned by Blackstone. He has also been Director at Mengus, where he focused on office property investments, and an Executive at Macquarie Capital, where he provided corporate financial advisory services.

Jonas holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering & Management from Linköping University.

Slättö

Slättö is a Nordic real estate private equity fund manager with premises in Stockholm, Helsinki, Norrköping, and Malmö. The company was founded by Johan Karlsson in 2013 and has today 55 employees. Since inception, Slättö has SEK 20 billion in aggregate acquisition value and a solid track record with a net IRR of 20+ and an average equity multiple of 1.8 across completed funds. The team has done 120+ transactions. In its current portfolio, Slättö has a focus on residential and logistics/warehouse properties. Slättö has raised seven funds with a total AUM of SEK 13 billion and has a Nordic investor base of larger family offices, pension funds, banks, insurance companies and foundations. Slättö is fully owned and operated by key executives and has exceptional access to transactions with 80 percent of its acquisitions sourced off-market without broker. The Slättö culture is characterized by an exceptional drive, engagement and personal presence.

Andrew is Global Head of Real Estate Research & Strategy at Zurich Insurance, having joined the firm in February 2023. Based in Zurich, he is responsible for shaping the firm’s strategic real estate outlook. He works closely with portfolio managers and investor partners in developing and implementing comprehensive, integrated global investment strategies. He sits on the Investment Committee and is a member of the Leadership Team. Andrew has more than 20 years of experience in real asset research & strategy. Prior to his current role, he was Head of European Research at CBRE Investment Management having worked in London, Paris, and Los Angeles. He has also held positions in land use planning and environmental consulting in the U.S and Germany. He holds a Master’s Degree in Urban and Regional Planning and a Bachelor’s Degree in International Agriculture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an active member of the Urban Land Institute, co-chairing the European Office and Mixed Use Council. Andrew is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Britain, fluent in German.

Zurich Insurance

Zurich Insurance Group AG, together with its subsidiaries, provides insurance products and related services in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. As part of the Investment Management division, the firm’s global real estate platform has USD24 billion of AUM and is comprised of more than 100 dedicated investment professionals in 11 offices globally. Guided by a risk-centric investment approach, the real estate team primarily employs a core strategy when acting on behalf of the Zurich Insurance balance sheet and third party clients. The company was founded in 1872 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Ekaterina is responsible for the overall leadership of the Mirastar platform. Mirastar is a pan-European European industrial ＆ logistics investor, manager and developer. The company is majority owned by KKR funds. Ekaterina previously co-founded Delin Properties in 2011, first as Head of Investments and subsequently as MD, where she repositioned the business as a fully integrated Pan-European logistics development and asset management platform. Third party investment was secured through 3 separate mandates, enabling the development pipeline and assets under management to increase from €400m to over €1.3bn in less than 3 years. Before that, she worked in ING Real Estate’s lending team in the Netherlands and with GVA in Moscow. She is a recognised Pan-European industry leader and regular contributor to panels and articles in the logistics sector.

Yolande is a practice professor who spent 33 years researching property markets in industry before joining UCL as Chair of the Bartlett Real Estate Institute in 2018. As head of World Research at Savills, she took a global, cross-sector view of real estate and became increasingly interested in very long run trends.
Her work at UCL is deliberately unfocussed, looking at the combination and interaction of disruptive trends in demographics, finance, technology, society, the environment, and governments in changing global real estate. She believes that real estate, meaning land and everything attached to it, is at the heart of sustainability. Understanding real estate value in all its forms is therefore essential to solving the wicked problems and grand challenges of the 21st century. To this end, she sees as imperative the communication of knowledge and the activation of partnerships between academia and industry.

Karin Barthelmes-Wehr is Managing Director of the the Institute for Corporate Governance in the German Real Estate Industry (ICG) - the leading Think and Do Tank for all topics related to sustainable leadership. She has been involved in building up the institute since 2003.

Karin is also co-founder of the International Ethics Standards Coalition which she was initiated by the United Nations in 2014 and which she led as Chair for several terms. The coalition’s aim is to establish and implement a common code of ethics in the real estate industry worldwide. To date, around 150 real estate bodies from almost 50 countries (as well as just as many companies, universities and government organisations) have joined the coalition.

Apart from other honorary appointments, Karin is member of the advisory committee of the Real Estate Department of HAWK (Hildesheim/Holzminden University of Applied Sciences) and the Institute for Compliance & Environmental Social Governance (ICESG) at the College of Trier. She is a juror for the polis AWARD and founding member and mentor at the cross
industry program Initiative Women into Leadership (IWiL).

She holds a Master's degree (suma cum laude) in English, Romance Philology and Political Science from the University of Münster and has more than 25 years of experience in the real estate industry.

Before joining ICG, Karin worked in real estate conference management for EUROFORUM/”Handelsblatt” and in executive search at Heidrick & Struggles.

In 2020, the jury of "Immobilien Manager" selected her as the top 1 "Real Estate Influencer”, the category of "Real Estate Women with a Strong Presence and High Reputation".

James Boadle is a member of Oxford Properties’ European leadership team and is responsible for setting its European-wide strategy, as well as focusing on the execution of its industrial & logistics strategies across the region. Mr Boadle also serves as a non-executive director on the boards of a number of Oxford’s portfolio companies, including M7 Real Estate and Get Living PLC.

Mr Boadle has 15 years’ experience in the real estate sector and has executed over C$25 billion (£15 billion) of transactions, with global investment experience across all of the major asset classes. He joined Oxford in 2015 and has been responsible for some of the organization’s most significant investments, including leading Oxford’s foray into the European logistics and the UK residential sectors. Prior to Oxford, Mr Boadle spent 7 years at real estate advisory firms CBRE and Savills in their Central London capital markets business.

Mr Boadle holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics (Honours) from the University of Southampton, and is a member of the Investment Property Forum (IPF) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Oxford Properties

Oxford Properties Group is a leading global real estate investor, developer and manager. Established in 1960, Oxford and its portfolio companies manage approximately C$85 billion of assets across four continents on behalf of their investment partners. Oxford’s owned portfolio encompasses logistics, office, retail, multifamily residential, life sciences, credit and hotels in global gateway cities and high-growth hubs. A thematic investor with a committed source of capital, Oxford invests in properties, portfolios, development sites, debt, securities and real estate businesses across the risk-reward spectrum. Together with its portfolio companies, Oxford is one of the world’s most active developers with over 70 projects currently underway globally across all major asset classes.

Partner and CIO at COIMA Group. With more than 20 years of experience in the real estate sector, Gabriele has followed transactions worth more than 9 billion Euros. Joined the platform in 2005, overseeing the investment and capital market divisions. Gabriele previously worked in the Beni Stabili Group (today Covivio) and Hines. He was also a member of the Hines group of Investment and Performance Global Committee.

Jonathan Brasse is the senior editor for PEI Media’s Real Estate Group which comprises the group's real estate publications, PERE and Real Estate Capital. Jonathan leads the group’s editorial team and is responsible for setting the agendas for the print and online editions of both publications as well as all associated publications. He joined PEI in 2009 and has assumed various reporting and editing roles since, including responsibility for PERE’s coverage of the private real estate markets in Asia. He has a BA from the University of Kent and is an NCTJ qualified journalist.

Andrea Carpenter is a Director of Diversity Talks Real Estate, and a writer and communications consultant in the property industry.

As a Director of Diversity Talks Real Estate, Andrea helps raise the visibility of under-represented groups in the industry through the stage and media. This includes training and other female-led initiatives through DTRE’s Women Talk Real Estate community.

On the writing side, her book about the history of the modern European property industry, High Rise and Fall, was published by Routledge in September 2018.

Andrea began her career as a journalist at Property Week before moving on to be editor of EuroProperty for seven years. Following this she worked for various industry bodies including the Urban Land Institute, INREV in Amsterdam, and its sister organisation ANREV in Hong Kong. On returning to the UK, she worked as Head of Marketing and Communications EMEA at CBRE Global Investors.

Women Talk Real Estate

Women Talk Real Estate offers a practical solution to increase the visibility of women in the industry. We connect female professionals with speaking and press opportunities and offer tailored training for women on all aspects of building a successful stage and media presence. Our database features more than 450 women from across the European property industry and we have had over 120 invitations to speak issued through the system since Autumn 2017.

We believe that visibility matters. For the individual, it brings about better business opportunities and career progression, and it also challenges stereotypes and provides role models for the benefit of the whole industry.

We are a non-profit organisation helping the industry work together on improving gender diversity. We are funded through industry sponsorship, which enables us to offer our online network as a free service to our speakers, as well as to event organisers and the media. Find out more at womentalkrealestate.org and follow us on twitter @womentalkRE.

Jas has more than 25 years investment management experience, joining LGIM in 2018. She is Head of Strategic Change in Real Assets and sits on the Real Assets Management Committee responsible for driving the business strategy of the platform. She is also Chief of Staff to Bill Hughes, Global Head of Real Assets.

Prior to joining LGIM, Jas was an Alternatives Portfolio Manager at the Tesco Pension Fund responsible for investing across infrastructure, private equity, secondaries and other esoteric strategies such as aircraft leasing and shipping. Before that, she spent 11 years at Schroders Investment Management where she held various positions most notably as a Portfolio Manager in the global property multi-manager team allocating to global real estate funds. Jas holds an honours degree in Estate Management from the University of Singapore.

Dr. Souad Cherfouh is part of the European Private Real Estate business unit, based in London. She is responsible for developing the thematic investment research for real estate within Partners Group. She has 14 years of real estate research experience with companies like BNP Paribas Real Estate and Aviva Investors. She has held roles as Property Economist, Research Analyst and Head of Real Estate Investment Strategy Research. She holds a PhD in Economics and a Master's degree in Financial Economics from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France and Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France.

Partners Group

Partners Group is a leading global private markets firm. Since 1996, the firm has invested USD 210 billion in private equity, private real estate, private debt and private infrastructure on behalf of its clients globally. Partners Group seeks to generate attractive returns through capitalizing on thematic growth trends and transforming attractive businesses and assets into market leaders. The firm is a committed, responsible investor and aims to create sustainable returns with lasting, positive impact for all its stakeholders.

With USD 147 billion in assets under management as of 31 December 2023, Partners Group provides an innovative range of bespoke client solutions to institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and private individuals globally. The firm employs more than 1,900 diverse professionals across 20 offices worldwide and has regional headquarters in Baar-Zug, Switzerland; Denver, USA; and Singapore. It has been listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 2006.

Paul joined AustralianSuper, working in the London office, in November 2020 and is responsible for property and infrastructure investment activity in the UK and Europe. Since his arrival Paul has built out the team in London and led the acquisition of a 50% interest in the Canada Water regeneration scheme in partnership with British Land.

Paul has over thirty years’ experience as an investor, developer and manager. Previously he spent 13 years at The Crown Estate where he was the Chief Investment Officer and ran the strategy, investment, development and asset management teams dealing with £16 billion of assets. During his time there the teams he led were involved in around £10 billion of real estate transactions and completed over 2 million sq ft of new development. He also devised and led the creation of major partnerships with significant blue chip investors both in central London and around the UK. Prior to this Paul ran the real estate investment portfolio of the Church Commissioners.

Paul has also held various non-executive positions on unlisted vehicles and continues to contribute more widely to the real estate sector. Currently he sits on the board of Pathways To Property and is an active member of the British Property Federation.

In her role as chief investment officer for Manulife Investment Management Americas Real Estate, Maggie is responsible for developing and executing investment strategies, sourcing strategic platform opportunities alongside key operator/general partner relationships, managing portfolio risk and performance, and driving overall investment decisions and transaction volume across the firm’s North American business. She oversees performance on behalf of the firm’s clients, including structuring and execution of key ventures, capital formation, and integration of products. Prior to joining Manulife, Maggie was a founding member and managing partner of Sera Global, where she led the global private capital advisory business for real assets. Previously, Maggie served as senior managing director and head of international capital for JLL, where she led a team primarily focused on cross‐border deployment of capital across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific and was responsible for placing capital from offshore investors into JLL’s direct transactions, joint ventures, and recapitalizations.

She is currently a Global Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), Board Member of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) and a member of the Real Estate Executive Council (REEC), the largest organization of African American executives in real estate.

Daniel Cunningham is the editor of Real Estate Capital, contributing to and coordinating coverage of European real estate finance markets for the title's print and digital channels. He has more than 14 years’ experience writing about the real estate industry.

Daniel joined Real Estate Capital in 2015 from the financial news service Debtwire, where he covered commercial property lending and the market for non-performing loan portfolios. Prior to that, he worked at Estates Gazette, a weekly UK commercial property title, writing news and features about regional investment.

Clarence manages CBRE’s Global Loan Services Platform with more than $4000bn of commercial real estate debt in the US, Europe and Asia. In addition, Clarence leads CBRE’s Pan European commercial reals estate services practice which includes primary and special servicing, facility and security agency, loan underwriting and loan sales advisory and loan receivership of more than £80bn of commercial real estate debt. Clarence is also Head of the CBRE UK Diversity & Inclusion Committee which is responsible for leading the implementation of the organisation’s D&I strategy, working with partner, clients and staff and developing relationships with organisations focused on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

Clarence has over 25 years of commercial real estate debt experience having managed servicing and debt platforms in the UK, Germany, Spain and the Benelux.

He joined CBRE in 2013, after spending five years as CEO at Hatfield Philips International (Situs) , one of Europe’s largest commercial real estate mortgage servicers. Prior to Hatfield Philips, Clarence was Managing Director of Crown Mortgage Management (Capita) where his responsibilities included establishing and managing the European operations including both Primary and Special Servicing.

In 2001, Clarence was instrumental in establishing Kreditwerk (formerly Aareal) Hypotheken Management, Germany’s first mortgage servicer which grew to manage over €13bn in assets in less than four years. Clarence has also held leadership roles as Global Head of Commercial Payments at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt/New York.

Charlotte D’Souza is EMEA Editor for PERE, overseeing private real estate news and analysis for the European market, in addition to editing the monthly global PERE magazine. Based in London, Charlotte joined PEI in 2022, where she spent a year as a Special Projects Editor before transitioning into the PERE team in 2023. Prior to this, she spent more than seven years on the content team at alternative assets data and insights provider Preqin, most recently as Senior Editorial Manager. Charlotte has a BA in English and Spanish from the University of Exeter.

Ben Eppley is a Partner at Apollo where he leads its commercial real estate debt activities in Europe. He is primarily responsible for originating, structuring, and asset managing performing commercial real estate debt investments in whole loans, mezzanine loans, structured credit, and preferred equity. Ben also oversees sourcing and arranging financings for Apollo’s European Principal Finance Funds and core-plus strategy. Prior to joining Apollo in 2013, he worked in the Real Estate Structured Finance Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and the Commercial Real Estate Debt Capital Markets Group at Barclays Capital. Previously, he was with Eastdil Secured. Ben graduated from Yale University with a BA in English.

Lucy Fletcher joined QuadReal in June 2017. As Managing Director, Global Portfolio Management, her work with QuadReal focuses on global portfolio strategy and portfolio construction including strategical and tactical asset allocations, performance measurement, analytics, ESG and investor relations. Lucy oversees a global portfolio with an AUM in excess of $73 billion, invested across direct and indirect strategies in real estate debt and equity.

Lucy is currently Co-Chair of QuadReal’s Sustainability and EHS Committee and founded the Women in Transactions network. Lucy’s career has spanned all three regions in the past 25 years working across global investment advisory, portfolio and asset management, and transactions roles in the US, Canada, Asia Pacific, and Europe while at JLL, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and AIG.

Lucy holds a Master of Arts Degree (Honours) in Architectural Design from University of Edinburgh and a Postgraduate Diploma in Estate Management from South Bank University, London. She is a member of ULI’s Urban Development Mixed Use Council (Gold) and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Lucy is currently on the Management Board of INREV and is a member of their Investor Advisory Council.

QuadReal

QuadReal Property Group is a global real estate investment, operating and development company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its assets under management are $73.8 billion. From its foundation in Canada as a full-service real estate operating company, QuadReal has expanded its capabilities to invest in equity and debt in both the public and private markets. QuadReal invests directly, via programmatic partnerships and through operating companies in which it holds an ownership interest.

QuadReal seeks to deliver strong investment returns while creating sustainable environments that bring value to the people and communities it serves. Now and for generations to come.

Nicola Free is head of Commercial Real Estate, EMEA for Wells Fargo where she is focused on expanding the CRE platform in EMEA, enhancing capital markets capabilities and deepening balance sheet presence to in-region and U.S.-based clients.

Nicola has more than 20 years of experience in capital markets and commercial real estate, and has held a variety of senior leadership roles with notable institutions such as HSBC, AIG, GE Real Estate, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. She is also a qualified lawyer and is a Board member of CREFC.

Nicola is also passionate about promoting diversity in the workplace. Throughout her career, she has led various talent management initiatives to support gender balance and social mobility.

Susan is a partner at law firm Mishcon de Reya. An experienced real estate lawyer, her in depth understanding of the property market and business training as a Sloan Masters MSc (London Business School) graduate, combined with a wide circle of contacts help make the firm’s programme of events “must attend” networking opportunities.

Susan is Vice Chair of the British Property Federation's Technology and Innovation Group. She is also a member of the Urban Land Institute Technology and Real Estate European Product Council. She chaired the FUTURE: Proptech Advisory Group bringing together key influencers in real estate and proptech.

Susan is on the advisory boards of Seaforth Land and Work.Life and is on the board of Central District Alliance, the Holborn and surrounding area's Business Improvement District where she also chairs its Property Group.
Susan regularly undertakes speaking and panel engagements on real estate, retail and proptech related issues. She hosts the popular Propertyshe podcast where she interviews some of the top influencers who define and make a difference to the real estate industry and built environment.

She is active on LinkedIn and on Twitter and can be followed @Propertyshe.

Mishcon de Reya

Mishcon de Reya is an independent law firm with an international footprint. Our lawyers offer a full range of legal services across six departments: real estate, corporate, dispute resolution, employment, intellectual property and private.

With 220 Partners and Legal Directors and over 750 fee-earners in total our purpose remains rooted in our founding values. We have always been driven by an entrepreneurial, tenacious and socially conscious spirit: one that has always embraced change in order to stay relevant and shape the future.

From our offices in London, Cambridge, Oxford and Singapore, and through our association with Karas So LLP in Hong Kong, we still counsel clients around the world with the same vision, dedication and passion that we set out with. We continue to fight for freedoms, settle disputes, protect assets and grow businesses. We fiercely guard our clients’ interests and appreciate the privilege of sitting alongside them as a trusted advisor.

Ben joined Temasek in 2013 and is currently a Director in the real estate team based in London. He was previously with UBS AG in Singapore as an Associate Director. Ben is a CFA Charterholder and holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Temasek

Incorporated in 1974, Temasek is an investment company headquartered in Singapore. Supported by 13 offices across 9 countries, Temasek owns a S$382 billion (US$287 billion) portfolio as at 31 March 2023, mainly in Singapore and the rest of Asia.

Bernd Haggenmüller joined Ardian in 2016 with over 20 years’ experience, most recently at Shaftesbury Asset Management in Frankfurt, where he was Senior Managing Director Germany (2007-2016). He previously held roles as Managing Director at Multi Corporation, and Commerz Grundbesitz Group (now Commerz Real) and started his career with ECE Projektmanagement.

Jenny Hammarlund is the Senior Managing Director for Investments and the Head of Europe at Cadillac Fairview, the $40 billion real estate investing business of Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan. As such, she is responsible for the leadership of Cadillac Fairview’s Investments team, with a global investment strategy focused on the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Prior to her role there, Jenny Hammarlund had 25 years of experience in real estate investments, including as a Managing Director at H.I.G. Capital and a Director at KKR.

She has participated in transactions totaling more than €30 bn of value across multiple asset classes and geographies, most recently leading Cadillac Fairview's investments into Oxford North, a 1 million sqft life sciences development project in Oxford, as well as their investment into Boreal, a pan-European logistics platform building a €3 bn logistics portfolio, and several large scale office investments in London. Ms Hammarlund holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and speaks four languages. She was recently recognized as one of PEl's 2022 Global Top 10 Women of Influence in Private Markets in Real Estate

Julia Haugg is Head of the PERE Network, where she manages the global real estate membership of institutional investors and managers, spread across North America, Europe, and APAC. Her work includes setting the yearly agenda of online and in-person Network activities, leading special interest groups for investors, women in real estate, and sustainability, as well as offering connection opportunities with relevant industry players within the membership.

Julia holds an MBA in Political Science and Critical Linguistics from the University of Essex.

Philip joined CSC as part of its takeover of Intertrust and he with his team is responsible for running direct and indirect real estate investment structures holding assets in the UK and further afield. Experience includes offices, all sectors of retail, industrial, logistics, PRS, PBSA, hotels, and care homes.

Philip has over 30 years’ experience in real estate starting with providing advice to occupiers including large corporates and government departments and landlord’s ranging from family offices to institutions in private practice before moving to Jersey in 2009.

CSC

CSC provides tailored administration and strategic outsourcing solutions to support the complex operations of alternative asset managers across jurisdictions and asset types while adhering to global regulations and compliance. Founded in 1899, CSC prides itself on being privately held and professionally managed for more than 125 years. With capabilities in more than 140 jurisdictions, we’re the trusted partner of choice for 70% of the PEI 300. We are the business behind business®. Learn more at cscglobal.com.

Philip is a director on regulated and unregulated structures in a number of jurisdictions with a focus on real estate investment in the UK and Europe.

Catherine Hong is a Senior Advisor and Chair of the Real Estate Investment Committee for Sur, a London-based captive multi family office for a group of Saudi families. Prior to Sur, Catherine spent 16 years at Morgan Stanley, most recently as a Managing Director for the Portfolio Solutions Group of Morgan Stanley Investment Management. She was a member of PSG’s real estate investment committee and led opportunistic real estate investments for the team across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Catherine received a B.A. in economics and art history from Wellesley College and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the European Advisory Board of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School.

Partner and Co-founder at RoundShield Partners. Mr. Hybinette is Head of Strategy and Business Development and a member of the Investment Committee at RoundShield Partners. Mr. Hybinette was previously a Managing Director at ESO Capital (real estate). Prior to this role, he was a Vice President at Fortress Investment Group, primarily focused on real estate-related credit and special-situation equity investments within the Fortress Credit and Drawbridge Funds. Mr Hybinette began his career at Goldman Sachs in Capital Markets and thereafter worked in the Special Situations Group, where he was focused on real estate investments. He graduated with an MScBA from Lund University, Sweden, with studies at Walter A. Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.

RoundShield

RoundShield is a European asset-backed special situations and distressed investment firm focused primarily on small to mid-cap opportunities backed by real estate, hard/infrastructure assets and financial assets. The firm manages approximately $3.7bn of discretionary capital on behalf of pension funds, endowments, foundations and other institutional investors.

Azrina Mohd Isa is the Principal Officer and Director of Kwasa Invest Limited, a full subsidiary of the Employees Provident Fund Malaysia. In her current capacity, Azrina leads Kwasa Invest Limited, steering the organization towards strategic investment management and decisions of the broader goals of the Employees Provident Fund Malaysia. Her prior experience extends to diverse sectors of the fund investments in private equity and infrastructure. In Kwasa Invest she is tasked to focus more on real estate investments in the UK and Europe.

She holds an LL.B (Hons) from UiTM Malaysia an MBA from Imperial College Business School in London.

Kwasa Invest

KWASA Invest Limited is a UK incorporated entity based in London, UK and is a wholly owned subsidiary of EPF. Kwasa Invest role is to provide investment research services to EPF for investment opportunities in private equity, infrastructure and real estate of the UK, Europe, and the US. Employees Provident Fund (‘EPF’) is a Malaysian based retirement savings fund with total assets under management of RM 1,008.59 billion (c. USD 212.78 billion) in 2022, and membership of 15,716,213 members.

Ian is responsible for developing the European real estate platform, to complement the German and UK paltforms. Since opening the Paris office in May 2015, Ian has grown the European platform to over €2.0bn GAV investing across multiple strategies and within 10 countries. Prior to joining the firm, Ian gained over 10-years' experience at CBRE Investment Management where he co-launched several funds with a market value totalling over € 2.5bn. Ian is French-American and studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, followed by post-graduate studies at Columbia University and Harvard Business School.

Shobi Khan is the CEO of Canary Wharf Group (CWG). Previously, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of GGP Inc. (a S&P 500 REIT). Prior to GGP, he served as the U.S. chief investment officer at Bentall Kennedy. Mr. Khan spent 11 years at Equity Office Properties Trust (a S&P 500 REIT), where he was the Senior Vice President of Investments. Mr. Khan is a board member of the British Library. Previously, he served on the board of Alliansce Shopping Centers (ALSO3, a public Brazilian mall owner) and the Chicago Public Library Foundation.

Current position is a Managing Director of Hana Financial Investment (Top Investment Bank in Korean Real Estate Finance industry) as a head of Real Asset Investment Finance Department leading a Real Estate Investment Business in Korean Domestic and Global Overseas since beginning of year 2020. Working experience in Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance as a Real Estate Finance and Investment Manager for 10 years (2010~2019) before Hana. Overseas Investment Team Leader was a last position in Samsung. 2.5 years with Shinhan Securities (IB Securities Firm in Korea) for the Global Real Estate Investment Manager before Samsung. Career started with Hyundai Engineering and Construction for 10 years (1998~2007) in a sector of Overseas Business (7 years including 5 years Hong Kong) and Development Business Manager in Korea. Bachelor's degree from Korea Univ. major in Architecture. Master's Degree from the Univ. of Hong Kong major in Real Estate Finance and Investment.

김도일 상무는 하나금융투자(국내 부동산 금융업계 최고의 투자은행)의 상무이사로 2020년 연초부터 국내외 실물자산투자금융부서에서 부동산 투자 사업을 이끌고 있습니다. 하나금융그룹 합류 이전 약 10년간 삼성화재에서 부동산 금융 및 운용역으로 근무한 경력을 보유하고 있으며 이때 해외투자팀장직책을 역임했습니다. 삼성 화재에 앞서 글로벌 부동산 투자운용역으로 신한증권에서 약 2년 6개월간 근무하였으며, 부동산 투자 업무 경력은 해외사업부문(홍콩 5년 포함 7년) 포함 총 10년 (1998~2007)을 재직한 현대건설 개발사업부에서 부터 시작되었습니다. 고려대학교 건축학 학사를 수여 받았으며, 홍콩 대학교에서 부동산 금융 및 투자 석사 학위를 취득했습니다.

Vivienne King has over 30 years’ leadership experience in the real estate industry with a track record of advocating for environmental and social sustainability. Formerly head of real estate at social impact consultancy, The Good Economy and prior to that, CEO of Revo, the membership organisation for retail property, where she supported development of Revo’s Social Value Framework. Prior to 2020, she was CEO of Soho Housing Association providing affordable homes and supporting local needs in London’s West End. With over 20 years at the Crown Estate, as a member of the senior team she was responsible for leadership of its ESG corporate strategy and its innovative measurement tool – Total Contribution. A campaigner for high street and town centre renewal as chair of the Shopkeepers’ Campaign and for real estate industry EDI as a co-founder of Real Estate Balance, working with industry leaders to drive change in real estate.

Based in London, Anne Koeman-Sharapova is the Head of European Real Estate Investment at Mercer. She joined Mercer in 2019 and has been working in the financial services industry, with a focus on real estate, since 2006.

As part of the Global Real Assets Team, Anne leads Mercer’s research coverage on real estate investment products, both primaries and co-investments, in the UK and Europe. The team delivers real estate investment advice to Mercer’s broad advisory client base and is responsible for the investment recommendations for Mercer’s discretionary accounts.

Before joining Mercer, Anne spent most of her career in the Strategy & Research team of two well-known real estate investment management firms, LaSalle Investment Management and M&G Investments. She started her career at a large property agency, today part of Cushman & Wakefield. Throughout her career she participated with relevant industry bodies, such as the UK Investment Property Forum (IPF), the Society of Property Researchers (SPR) and the European Association of Non-Listed Real Estate Funds (INREV).

She holds the FCA’s Investment Management Certificate and a professional certification in Data Analysis from the LSE. Her academic achievements have been in Geography and Urban Planning, wherein she holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Amsterdam and a Master of Science from the LSE.

Anne is a native Dutch speaker, fluent in English and has proficient working knowledge of German.

Mercer

As one of three business lines, Mercer offers investment consulting and fiduciary management for pension funds, endowments, foundations and other investors. Mercer Investments manages a number of commingled discretionary accounts across Public and Private Markets. Mercer Private Investment Partners (“PIP”) is Mercer’s flagship solution in Private Markets, designed to offer investors flexible access to a wide spectrum of global private markets across private equity, private debt, infrastructure, real estate, natural capital and sustainable opportunities. PIP invests across primaries, co-investments, secondaries, and other specialized offerings.

Mercer has more than 25,000 employees are based in 44 countries and the firm operates in over 130 countries. Mercer is a business of Marsh & McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people, with 76,000 colleagues and annual revenue of $17 billion. Through its market-leading businesses including Marsh, Guy Carpenter and Oliver Wyman, Marsh & McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment.

Ami is Co-Founder & Group President at Amro Partners, a specialist, GP focussed on investing in the living sector in the UK and in Europe. Through her early vision for achieving carbon neutrality and for driving value through the application of data science, Amro has achieved market-leading credentials as a responsible investor in the living sector.

Ami is also an advisor to several Proptech and AI- start ups and is Chair of the UK Proptech Association. She is a Board member at the British Property Fedaration where she engages in thought leadership to support innovation and digital transformation in the built environment.

Ami is passionate about developing the industry’s capacity to respond to key megatrends including demographic change, climate crisis and the future of work. She is a regular speaker at industry, climate and real estate technology events. As part of her broader contribution to addressing societal issues, she is an active Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts, President of Cambridge University Land Society (2024), board member of the London School of Economics Venture Capital Advisory Board and member of ULI and INREV.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amikotechaamro/

Amro Partners

Amro Partners is a pan-European, specialist asset manager focussed on PBSA, BTR and Co-Living sectors, with c.£1.9 bn GDV completed or under development.

Our senior leadership team has over 100 years of combined experience with a consistent track record of achieving high, double-digit equity IRRs. Our team consists of individuals from diverse backgrounds with expertise in real estate, financial services, sustainability and data science, spanning several geographic regions.

Our unique capabilities in data science and tech-driven process efficiencies are at the core of our investment decisions and drive value from acquisitions and deal execution through to active asset management .

Amro Partners’ full lifecycle approach to driving value for our stakeholders includes deeply embedded sustainability outcomes that focus on delivering resilient, future-proofed returns.

www.amropartners.com

Evelyn Lee is Editor for PEI’s real estate-focused publication, PERE, overseeing global news and analysis coverage. Based in London, she works closely with PERE colleagues across PEI’s offices in New York, London and Hong Kong and also writes about European and global news for the publication. Prior to joining PEI in 2011, she covered commercial real estate, economic development and the environment at NJBIZ, a New Jersey-focused business newspaper and website.

Dr. Nicole Lux, is a senior Research Fellow and Director of the Real Estate Research Centre at Bayes Business School, City, University of London and Co-Founder of FinLoop a real estate debt fintech platform. Between 1999 – 2016 she held various roles in real estate finance, loan origination, workout and CMBS structuring at Deutsche Bank and Citi Group. She started her career in European real estate finance at MSCI and Moody’s Investor Service. She has published research in the area of mortgage finance, credit risk and portfolio diversification and is a regular policy and banking advisor.

Cheryl Maher is a Director on the Real Estate Investment team at CPP Investments based in London. Cheryl is responsible for origination and execution of new opportunities as well as management of existing investment within the European and UK real estate portfolio. CPP Investment’s European real estate portfolio currently stands CAD$8bn. Cheryl joined CPP Investments in 2019, prior to this she worked for GIC on the European Real Estate Investment team.

CPP Investments

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) is a professional investment management organization that manages the fund in the best interest of the more than 20 million contributors and beneficiaries of the Canada Pension Plan. In order to build diversified portfolios of assets, investments are made around the world in public equities, private equities, real estate, infrastructure and fixed income. Headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney, CPP Investments is governed and managed independently of the Canada Pension Plan and at arm’s length from governments. At December 31, 2022, the Fund totalled C$535 billion.

Prabby is Head of Real Estate at Phoenix Group, where she is responsible for originating and managing a portfolio of real estate debt investments for the firm’s Asset Management division. Her team invests in senior debt opportunities across a broad range of sectors, including office, logistics, hospitality, care homes, social housing and residential property, with growing specialism in sustainability linked investment. Prior to joining Phoenix in 2019, Prabby was the lead subject matter expert for European Commercial Real Estate Debt in BlackRock’s Financial Markets Advisory team. She previously worked at Bank of America, ABN AMRO and Brookland Partners, and has 20 years of experience in real estate lending, investment, valuation and workout.

Phoenix Group

Phoenix Group is the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business with around £290 billion of assets under administration.
As life expectancy continues to increase and the pension landscape continues to shift, we offer our 12 million customers a broad range of pensions, savings and life insurance products across our family of brands which include Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Our vision is to help even more people on their journey to and through retirement, providing the right support at the right time.

We are a growing and sustainable business united by a common purpose – helping people secure a life of possibilities. This drives everything we do and means taking responsible and sustainable investment decisions, and using our presence and voice to drive forward change for the better, for our customers, our colleagues, and our wider community.

Alek commenced with Aware Super in January 2015 and has over 20 years’ experience in finance and investment management. In his role as Head of Property he is overseeing Aware Super’s property strategy and team locally and globally. Alek also sits on the Board of Aware Real Estate Management in Sydney and is a former Board member of Oak Tree Group in Brisbane, Bankstown and Camden Airports in Sydney, City ID Group in Amsterdam and Vivenio in Madrid.

Prior to Aware Super, Alek was with Willis Towers Watson in Sydney and London in the role of Head of Australian Real Estate and Senior Investment Consultant for Private Markets. In this role he was responsible for developing and implementing innovative local and global solutions in real estate for clients in Australia. Prior to Willis Towers Watson, Alek was a member of the real estate team at APG Asset Management in Amsterdam focused on investments in unlisted real estate funds, joint ventures and private operating companies.

Earlier in his career Alek also worked for Heineken N.V., and a boutique trading company, Vesta Intracon B.V. Alek is fluent in Dutch, English and Macedonian and holds two Masters degrees from Western Sydney University (majoring in Business and Applied Finance), and also holds a Batchelor’s Degree in Commercial Economics from the University of Amsterdam (Hogeschool van Amsterdam).

Aware Super

Aware Super is one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds managing over A$150 billion in assets and providing superannuation, advice and retirement solutions to over 1 million members around Australia. The majority of our members work in education, health and service-based vocations, including law enforcement, emergency services and other organizations that care for the community.

We believe that everyone deserves a dignified retirement. Through our financial planning business, we provide high quality, affordable advice for members and all Australians. While we’re big, we see our members as individuals. We understand the role we play in safeguarding their savings and working with them to plan for the future they want. Our strategy and motivation centre on delivering the best possible retirement outcomes for our members. Our responsibility is to grow the value of our members' superannuation by delivering competitive returns while managing investment risk and volatility.

Tim joined Swiss Life Asset Managers UK in March 2020 as Chief Investment Officer and as a member of the company’s Management Board.

In addition to his CIO and Board responsibilities, Tim plays a key role in formulating new strategies and business development.

Prior to joining Swiss Life Asset Managers UK, Tim spent two decades at CBRE Global Investors, where he was a member of the UK Executive Committee and Head of Inbound Capital, responsible for working on separate account business development globally. Prior to this, Tim was the lead director for several key UK pension fund mandates with experience of managing start-up, sell-down and stable portfolio strategies. Tim was instrumental in developing CBRE Global Investors’ investment process and is highly regarded within the investment consultant community.

Tim graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Modern History followed by a Masters in Property Valuation & Law at City University. He qualified as a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) in 2000 and in 2003 he completed the IMC and became authorised by the FCA to undertake investment business.

Swiss Life Asset Managers

Swiss Life Asset Managers has more than 165 years of experience in managing the assets of the Swiss Life Group. This insurance background has exerted a key influence on the investment philosophy of Swiss Life Asset Managers, which is governed by such principles as value preservation, the generation of consistent and sustainable performance and a responsible approach to risks. Swiss Life Asset Managers offers this proven approach to third-party clients in Switzerland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the UK, Italy and the Nordic countries.

Nael Mustafa is the Chief Executive Officer of GFH Partners Ltd., the real estate asset management arm of the GFH Financial Group that provides real estate asset management, investment, and advisory services. Nael also serves as the Co-Chief Investment Officer in Real Estate for GFH Financial Group, where he is responsible for developing and executing the Group’s global real estate investment strategy and oversight of its growing portfolio of assets across the Middle East, Europe / UK, and the US. Nael has overseen the deployment of over $2 billion into real estate portfolios in the US, Europe / UK, and the GCC in the areas of logistics, living, healthcare real estate as well as the acquisition of controlling stakes in three asset managers. Nael has more than 30 years of experience in investment banking with a proven record in regional and international alternative investments.

Prior to joining GFH in October 2020, Nael spent 17 years at Arcapita in a number of senior positions. Most recently, he was Managing Director for Strategic Investments & Business Development, a Member of the Global Investment Committee and a Board Member of Real Estate Funds and Private Equity. During his tenure at Arcapita, Nael led the Middle Eastern Real Estate platform which oversaw the launch and management of over $1 billion of logistics assets funds in the region, served as a member of the global real estate executive committee and help the board membership and active management position in a number of international real estate portfolios including a European Logistics platform with over €2 billion of assets as well as other businesses and real estate transactions. Previously, Nael was the Head of Corporate Finance at SICO Bank in addition to working with BNP Paribas and GM TAIB Securities in Bahrain.

Nael is a Charted Financial Analyst, holds an MBA from Edinburgh Business School, and a B.Sc in Accounting and Finance from the University of Bahrain.

Daniel Oh, Director in Real Estate Investment Group, is currently responsible for managing European/Global Real Estate Investment. Previously, he was a lead portfolio manager for External Equity/Multi-Asset/Fixed Income funds.

Daniel started his investment career as an equity research analyst at CLSA covering Capital Goods sector. He served two years in Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army (selected as Drill Sergeant). He holds a BS in Industrial Design from Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST).

Frida Olsson is Portfolio Manager at The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4). She is responsible for the fund’s private real estate portfolio consisting of both larger platforms and fund investments. Frida has a master’s degree in real estate and construction management from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Prior AP4 Frida has worked with real estate investment banking at two Nordic banks as well as a construction consultant. AP4 is a buffer fund in the Swedish public pension system, per June 2022 total AUM amounted to SEK 460 bn. AP4 is a long-term investor with a conviction that over time, integrating sustainability aspects in the asset management contributes to better management of risk and opportunities thus also returns.

Christie Ou is the Asia-Pacific reporter for PERE covering the private equity real estate markets in the region. Prior to joining PERE, she covered Asia’s business market for Bloomberg Business Week Chinese and the credit market for UK based Private Debt Investor. She is a native speaker of Cantonese and Mandarin, with solid command of writing and speaking in English. Christie holds her bachelor degree at London School of Economics and a master degree in journalism at the University of Hong Kong.

크리스티 오우 PERE 아태담당 리포터는 아시아 지역의 사모부동산시장을 취재하고 있다. 당사 이전에는 Bloomberg Business Week Chinese에서 아시아의 기업시장과 영국의 PDI (Private Debt Investor)에서 크레딧시장을 담당하였다. 만다린어와 광둥어 원어민이며, 영문 기사 작성 및 회화에 능통하다. 런던정치경제대학교(LSE)에서 학사학위를, 홍콩대학교에서 저널리즘 전공 석사학위를 수여하였다.

PEREのアジア太平洋担当記者。アジア太平洋地域のプライベート・エクイティ不動産市場を担当する。PEREの入社以前は、ブルームバーグ・ビジネスウィーク・チャイニーズにてアジアのビジネス市場を担当した他、英国を拠点とするプライベート・デット・インベスター誌にてクレジット市場を担当。広東語と北京語を母語とし、英語でのライティングや会話が堪能。ロンドン大学経済政治学院にて学士号、また香港大学にてジャーナリズムの修士号をそれぞれ取得。

As CEO of Stoneweg US, Patrick Richard has led the firm’s exponential growth, reaching a portfolio value of over $2.1 billion and nearly 19,000 units. Acting with integrity and committing to an ESG focused investment strategy, Patrick places the utmost priority on generating value for stakeholders and establishing Stoneweg US as a premiere investment partner. Over the last 8 years, Patrick has also prioritized and implemented an enhanced reporting structure to supply clear and transparent reporting to all partners and stakeholders.

Patrick began his commercial real estate career in Switzerland as a founding partner of Procimmo AG, a Swiss-based and regulated asset management company, where he was appointed Chairman of the Board during his 12-year tenure. Patrick holds a law degree from the University of Geneva and has completed several board education programs, including at the Swiss Board Institute and IMD.

Bill Schwab has served as Global Head of Real Estate for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) from January 2009 to June 2018. He was responsible for an investment portfolio comprising direct and indirect investments, public and private debt and equity, across global markets. Bill joined ADIA in January 2009 from JP Morgan Securities Ltd. where he was Managing Director for EMEA. Previously, he worked for Deutsche Bank, London, and Goldman Sachs, New York. Prior to his banking experience, he had worked in real estate development and construction, including service as a job superintendent, project manager and director of acquisitions and dispositions. Bill’s educational background includes: MIT, BS economics; The Wharton School, MBA real estate finance; Temple University, MST taxation; Pennsylvania State University, Certificate construction technology. He is a CFA charterholder.

Ben is an experienced property professional having worked on both the principal and advisory side of the commercial property markets leading teams in the UK, Europe and globally. He has a deep knowledge of fund and asset management and investment and development management. Ben has managed equity and debt funds and sought to develop and attract new business opportunities globally through mergers and acquisitions.
Ben has managed real estate assets full circle from acquisition to disposal, having executed business plans from asset origination, development and midway through their investment cycle in distressed and special situations. Ben is experienced across all asset sectors, with a specialisation in Logistics & Light Industrial and has been involved in capital transactions at the property level in excess of a billion euros and managed sizeable real estate funds and teams.

Abby leads Oxford’s European residential and life sciences businesses and is accountable for these businesses’ strategies, capital deployment / acquisitions, strategic asset management, platform set up, strategic stakeholder relationships and total returns.

Abby has 15 years of real estate experience across the USA, UK and Europe. Abby started at Oxford in 2011 and since joining has contributed to the formulation and execution of Oxford’s investment and asset management strategies across the UK, Paris and Berlin across a broad range of asset classes.

Abby sits on Oxford’s European Senior Management Team and is also accountable for enhancing operational and ESG performance across Oxford’s European portfolio..

Abby holds a BA magna cum laude in Business Administration from American University in Washington, DC and an MSc with Distinction in Real Estate Economics and Finance from the London School of Economics.

Oxford Properties Group

Oxford Properties Group is a leading global real estate investor, developer and manager. Established in 1960, Oxford and its portfolio companies manage approximately C$85 billion of assets across four continents on behalf of their investment partners. Oxford’s owned portfolio encompasses logistics, office, retail, multifamily residential, life sciences, credit and hotels in global gateway cities and high-growth hubs. A thematic investor with a committed source of capital, Oxford invests in properties, portfolios, development sites, debt, securities and real estate businesses across the risk-reward spectrum. Together with its portfolio companies, Oxford is one of the world’s most active developers with over 70 projects currently underway globally across all major asset classes.

Adam Smallman is Director of Membership Programmes at PEI, creating high-value opportunities for senior financial professionals in alternative asset classes such as private equity, real estate, debt, and infrastructure to connect and learn more effectively. He is a former Head of Content at UK investment bank Liberum and at shipping intelligence service Lloyd's List Group, and was Managing Editor at Dow Jones responsible for oil, gas, commodities, and investment banking in EMEA.

Stefan leads the real asset program at Perpetual Investors in Munich. In this role, he is responsible for managing the real asset portfolio and focuses on manger selection across the broad spectrum of the infrastructure and real estate universe. Prior to joining Perpetual in 2017, Stefan worked several years as a Portfolio Manager at MEAG Munich Ergo Asset Management, where he managed Munich Re’s emerging market corporate bond portfolio. Stefan holds a MSc in Mathematical Finance from TU Munich and is a CFA charter holder.

Perpetual Investors

Perpetual Investors is a multi-strategy investment firm based in Munich, Germany. Based on clear guidelines, the firm follows a sustainable, unrestricted long-term investment strategy within an institutional open architecture approach. The asset universe includes but is not limited to Private Debt, Private Equity, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Hedge Funds, as well as liquid equity and fixed income.

Ravi serves as the head of Cheyne’s real estate business, since its inception in 2008, and has grown the business to its current position as a leader in the pan-European real estate debt markets with an AUM of over $6 billion. He has over 20 years’ experience in European real estate markets. Previously he was on ING Bank’s proprietary investments desk, with sole responsibility for managing a long/short portfolio of European commercial real estate credits and CMBS, along with special situations investing. Prior to that, he was at Lehman Brothers, structuring and executing UK and European CMBS/RMBS and commercial real estate mezzanine loans. He began his career on the UK commercial real estate desk at Ernst & Young in 1998. Ravi graduated from Cambridge University with a Master’s degree in Engineering.

Livio Stracca is the Deputy Director General of Macroprudential Policy & Financial Stability at the European Central Bank and an adjunct Professor at the University of Frankfurt J.-W. Goethe. He has a PhD in Economics and a postgraduate degree in European Union Law. He has published extensively in international macroeconomics, international finance, and monetary economics.

Mr. Trausch is the global Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO Prime Real Estate and Managing Director at PIMCO. He chairs the Management Board, the Executive Committee as well as the Equity and Debt Investment Committees where he holds a veto right. Mr. Trausch has over 25 years of experience in the finance and real estate sector. Prior to joining the company in 2016, back then named Allianz Real Estate, he was CEO of Asia Pacific for GE Capital Real Estate International, also serving as President & CEO for GE Capital Real Estate Japan. Before that, he worked as a Development Manager for Tishman Speyer Properties in New York and Berlin and as an Associate Fixed Income at Goldman Sachs Group in London. Mr. Trausch has built a strong reputation in the market and is a thought leader in the industry. He is a ULI Global Governing Trustee and a regular contributor to real estate media and an engaged moderator and panelist at industry events. He is a graduate of ESCP in Paris and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Huib Vaessen is heading the global Research & Analytics team at APG Real Estate and Infrastructure. Before APG Huib was a senior portfolio manager listed real estate at Kempen Capital Management where he led a successful digital transformation and he was the COO of GeoPhy, a big data real estate analytics company acquired in 2022. Besides doing research to make better investment decisions his current goal is to get the digital colleague that his team is building promoted to the investment committee.

APG Asset Management

APG is the Netherlands’ largest pension administrator and its approximately 3000 employees handle management advice, asset management, pension administration, pension communication and employer services. APG pursues these activities on behalf of pension and other funds and employers in education, government, construction, cleaning and window cleaning, housing corporations, energy and utility companies, sheltered employment, medical specialists and architecture firms. For the pension and other funds in these industries, APG manages approximately 463 billion euros (December 2018) in pension assets. APG works for approximately 21,000 employers and administers the pensions of one in five families in the Netherlands (approx. 4.5 million participants). APG has offices in Heerlen, Amsterdam, Brussels, New York and Hong Kong.

Damien Webb is our Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Head of International for Aware Super, one of Australia’s top performing super funds managing A$160 billion on behalf of its 1.1 million members.

Based in London since October 2023, Damien oversees the Fund’s international expansion strategy which aims to originate a UK, European and Global deal flow for the global portfolio’s projected A$250 billion FUM milestone. He leads a team of 14 who have an initial focus on international Property, Infrastructure and Private Equity assets.

Damien has over 25 years’ experience in funds management he joined Aware Super as Head of the Real Assets team in January 2014, having previously worked at Perpetual Investments and ING Investment Management.
Damien received a Bachelor of Economics degree from Sydney University and is an Associate of the Securities Institute of Australia having completed his Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment. In 2006, Damien completed his Master’s in Applied Finance with Macquarie University.