Maarten is Senior Director – Global Strategist in the real estate investment team of PGGM since august 2016. His responsibilities include setting the top-down investment strategy for the private real estate portfolio and he serves as a member of the investment committee. Besides his role at PGGM Maarten has a part-time position as Research Fellow at TIAS Business School, Tilburg University. Prior to joining PGGM he worked as Director of Investment Solutions at CBRE Global Investors where he had a shared responsibility for the global allocation framework used to advice CBRE GI’s largest clients. Maarten holds a PhD from Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

Xavier is a member of the Management Committee and the Board of Directors at AG Real Estate, a Brussels based real estate investor and developer with an international portfolio under management in excess of €6bn. As Chief Development Officer, he is responsible for all development projects of the group representing a 1.000.000 m² pipeline. Xavier is also Chairman of AG Real Estate France. Prior to his current positions, Xavier was Chief Operating Officer and Board Member at Cofinimmo, a diversified REIT with a €4bn portfolio. Xavier joined Cofinimmo in 2002 after five years in London with architectural firms Chapman Taylor and HOK Sport, now known as Populous. Xavier graduated from UCL in 1996 as Civil Engineer Architect, received a MBA from INSEAD in 2002 and attended different programmes at the Harvard Business School. Xavier is Chair of the Urban Land Institute for Belgium & Luxembourg.

As chief executive of ULI Europe, Lisette 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 14 countries. She is responsible for working with ULI’s staff both locally and globally to deliver more high profile content and reports; coordinating Advisory Services panels and Urban Plan; and expanding the Institute’s thought leadership across Europe. Van Doorn joined ULI in January 2015 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. Van Doorn 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.

Bénédicte Paviot is an Anglo-French TV and Radio journalist based in London. She’s been the UK Correspondent for the French international television news channel, France 24, since its launch in 2006, reporting for both their English and French 24-hour Channels on all major news events in the UK – political, economic, social and cultural. Before that she worked as a news and current affairs presenter/reporter for BBC World Service (Radio), BBC World (TV), BBC News 24 (TV), BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio France Internationale. Previously, she was the UK Correspondent for BFMTV and Business FM. She has extensive experience as a moderator of international conferences, chairing EU and government-sponsored symposiums, debates and workshops in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Dubai. On a wide range of topics including: Reporting on Pandemics, Legal Compliance and Whistleblowing, Sustainable Development, Media Pluralism in the Digital Age, European Elections and Institutions, Human Trafficking, e-Health, the Financial Crisis, Globalisation, Transnational Cooperation in the EU, Gender Equality, Water Management, Wind Power, Biodiversity, Deforestation, Nanotechnology... Twitter handle: @benedictepaviot Bénédicte Paviot is an Anglo-French TV and Radio journalist based in London. She’s been the UK Correspondent for the French international television news channel, France 24, since its launch in 2006, reporting for both their English and French 24-hour Channels on all major news events in the UK – political, economic, social and cultural. Before that she worked as a news and current affairs presenter/reporter for BBC World Service (Radio), BBC World (TV), BBC News 24 (TV), BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio France Internationale. Previously, she was the UK Correspondent for BFMTV and Business FM. She has extensive experience as a moderator of international conferences, chairing EU and government-sponsored symposiums, debates and workshops in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Dubai. On a wide range of topics including: Reporting on Pandemics, Legal Compliance and Whistleblowing, Sustainable Development, Media Pluralism in the Digital Age, European Elections and Institutions, Human Trafficking, e-Health, the Financial Crisis, Globalisation, Transnational Cooperation in the EU, Gender Equality, Water Management, Wind Power, Biodiversity, Deforestation, Nanotechnology... Twitter handle: @benedictepaviot

Mariya Tsvetkova is responsible for pan-European acquisitions at NREP, with a focus on scaling its various living platforms. Prior to that, she was a senior associate at FORE Partnership, a boutique sustainability real estate investment firm, and has also held roles in Hines’ pan-European investment team in London, and in JLL’s Strategy Consulting practice in New York. She is also the current Chair of the ULI UK Young Leaders Group and one of EG’s Rising Stars. Mariya is regularly involved in industry sustainability and social impact discussions and programmes, including UKGBC’s 2020 Future Leaders in Sustainability programme and the steering committee of ULI Social Value research. She has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University.

Etienne Cadestin founded and is the CEO of Longevity Partners, a leading global multi-disciplinary ESG and climate mitigation consultancy in 2015. Prior to that, Etienne worked at Knight Frank, JLL and the United Nations Environment Programme (the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agendas). Etienne has more than a decade of experience in sustainable property investment and strategy. He currently advises the largest property investment companies in the world and is on the board of Orée, the leading French think tank on Biodiversity, circular economy and ESG reporting. In 2019, Etienne won the EG Awards in the category ‘Future of Real Estate’. Before that, Etienne was picked to be an Estate Gazette’s 'Property Rising Star' and nominated for numerous awards as one of the most active young leaders in the sustainability and real estate industries. He regularly speaks at high-level events, giving his vision for smart cities, carbon neutral buildings, wellbeing in the workplace and the future of the real estate industry to build a resilient and more inclusive society. Etienne graduated from the London School of Economics. A keen sportsman, Etienne has run nine marathons and enjoys playing tennis, sailing, skiing, cycling and golf. He is married with a daughter and a son.