ULI Europe Chairman

Marnix Galle

After studying economics at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Marnix began his professional career in 1987 at Cegos Belgium as a consultant. In 1989, he took his first steps in the real estate sector (family portfolio).

His own company Allfin (°2001) became one of the leading real estate developers in Belgium. In 2014, Allfin Group took a 29% stake in Immobel, listed on Euronext since 1863. Following the merger between Allfin Group and Immobel in 2016, he became its Executive Chairman.

Marnix was Chairman of ULI Belgium (2015-2018) and is a director, member and trustee of several leading European and American associations.

ULI Europe Chief Executive Officer

Lisette van Doorn

As chief executive of ULI Europe, van Doorn is responsible for the development of the Institute’s activities across the region, including its renowned pan-European conferences and over 250 local meetings and events across 15 National Councils. She is also responsible for the ULI Charitable Trust, which raises money to advance ULI’s mission and philanthropic activities across Europe.

Van Doorn joined ULI from LIRE, her own consultancy business, which advises international institutional real estate investors and fund managers on strategy, organisational optimisation and portfolio structuring.

Prior to this, van Doorn was country manager for CBRE Global Investors where she managed a €1.6bn portfolio of assets in Italy and fund manager of two shopping centre funds (€ 1.3 billion) with assets in Spain, Portugal and Italy.

Before joining CBRE Global Investors, van Doorn was founding chief executive for INREV, the European association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles for four and a half years. She started her career at ING Investment Management, where she held account manager and assistant controller positions before being made managing director of research & strategy for ING Real Estate Investment Management Europe.

ULI Europe Executive Committee