ULI Europe Chair
Anne Kavanagh

Anne Kavanagh is the former CEO of residential and mixed-use developer Telford Homes, a Trammell Crow Company,  transitioning in July 2024 to focus on her non-executive roles. Her roles now include: ULI – Global Board Member , Governing Trustee & Chair ULI Europe; L&G Asset Management- Non Executive Director; The Crown Estate – Commissioner; and Trinity College, Cambridge- Advisor to the Investment Committee

At Telford Homes, one of London’s leading sustainable developers, she focused on designing and delivering high-quality homes and build to rent communities across the capital. During her career, Anne was also a Board Member at international businesses including PATRIZIA where she served as CIO, and at AXA Real Assets where she had headed up Asset Management, Development and Transactions globally.

Anne has been an active member of ULI since 2001 and has served on the ULI Global Board of Directors since 2019. She has also been a Global Governing Trustee since 2011 and is a member of the European Living Concepts Council. She previously served as the UK National Council Chair, as well as on many committees, including the ULI Europe Executive Committee.

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 Council country networks. 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.