2025 ULI Europe Conference

2025-06-16T15:00:00 - 2025-06-16T17:00:00 Europe/London	C Change for Housing Forum: Tackling Systemic Barriers to Affordable, Sustainable Housing
2025-06-16T19:00:00 - 2025-06-16T23:00:00 Europe/London	Product Council Dinners

2025-06-17T08:00:00 - 2025-06-17T17:00:00 Europe/London	Product Council Meetings
2025-06-17T09:00:00 - 2025-06-17T11:30:00 Europe/London	Canada Water - Site Tour Pre-Registration Required
2025-06-17T10:00:00 - 2025-06-17T12:30:00 Europe/London	Canada Water - Site Tour 10am Pre-Registration Required
2025-06-17T14:00:00 - 2025-06-17T16:30:00 Europe/London	Canary Wharf Site Tour - Fully Booked
2025-06-17T14:00:00 - 2025-06-17T16:00:00 Europe/London	Covent Garden Site Tour Pre-Registration Required
2025-06-17T14:00:00 - 2025-06-17T17:00:00 Europe/London	King's Cross Site Tour Pre-Registration Required
2025-06-17T16:30:00 - 2025-06-17T18:00:00 Europe/London	Governing Trustee Meeting
2025-06-17T18:30:00 - 2025-06-17T21:00:00 Europe/London	Welcome Networking Reception Pre-Registration Required
2025-06-17T19:00:00 - 2025-06-17T23:00:00 Europe/London	ULI European Leadership Awards Dinner

2025-06-18T08:00:00 - 2025-06-18T09:30:00 Europe/London	Registration and Networking
2025-06-18T08:00:00 - 2025-06-18T09:00:00 Europe/London	ULI Europe Chair’s Breakfast - Fully Booked
2025-06-18T09:20:00 - 2025-06-18T09:45:00 Europe/London	Welcome to the ULI Europe Conference 2025
2025-06-18T09:45:00 - 2025-06-18T10:45:00 Europe/London	Opening Keynote: Geopolitics and Global Markets
2025-06-18T10:45:00 - 2025-06-18T11:30:00 Europe/London	Keynote Presentation: Macroeconomic Trends
2025-06-18T11:30:00 - 2025-06-18T11:50:00 Europe/London	Coffee Break
2025-06-18T11:50:00 - 2025-06-18T12:00:00 Europe/London	ULI European Leadership Awards 2025 Winners
2025-06-18T12:00:00 - 2025-06-18T13:00:00 Europe/London	Capital Market Trends
2025-06-18T13:00:00 - 2025-06-18T14:15:00 Europe/London	Meet the Speakers and Thought Leaders Lunch
2025-06-18T13:00:00 - 2025-06-18T14:15:00 Europe/London	Networking Lunch
2025-06-18T14:15:00 - 2025-06-18T14:45:00 Europe/London	Fireside Chat with Rebecca Dibb-Simkin, Chief Marketing Officer, Octopus Energy
2025-06-18T14:45:00 - 2025-06-18T15:00:00 Europe/London	The Nimble City: Leading Innovation, Opportunity, and Growth
2025-06-18T15:00:00 - 2025-06-18T15:45:00 Europe/London	City Strategy: Resilience, Inclusion, and the Future of Urban Power
2025-06-18T15:45:00 - 2025-06-18T16:15:00 Europe/London	Fireside Chat: Prioritising People — Designing and Developing for Global Teams
2025-06-18T16:15:00 - 2025-06-18T17:15:00 Europe/London	Closing Keynote: An Insider’s View Of Current Global Events Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator for the Financial Times
2025-06-18T17:15:00 - 2025-06-18T17:25:00 Europe/London	Closing Remarks
2025-06-18T17:25:00 - 2025-06-18T17:30:00 Europe/London	Closing of Conference
2025-06-18T17:30:00 - 2025-06-18T18:15:00 Europe/London	Drinks Reception
2025-06-18T18:15:00 - 2025-06-18T18:45:00 Europe/London	Coaches to Conference Dinner Venue (one way only)
2025-06-18T19:00:00 - 2025-06-18T22:00:00 Europe/London	Conference Reception and Dinner

2025-06-19T08:00:00 - 2025-06-19T10:00:00 Europe/London	ULI Europe Executive Board Meeting
2025-06-19T09:30:00 - 2025-06-19T11:30:00 Europe/London	ULI and PwC Emerging Trends in Real Estate Forum Pre-Registration Required
2025-06-19T10:00:00 - 2025-06-19T14:00:00 Europe/London	C Change Forum: Driving Decarbonisation Through Collaboration Pre-Registration Required and Innovation
2025-06-19T10:00:00 - 2025-06-19T15:00:00 Europe/London	ULI Europe NEXT Forum (35-45s)
2025-06-19T10:00:00 - 2025-06-19T16:30:00 Europe/London	ULI Europe Young Leaders Forum (U35)

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Bishop James Jones is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Foresters (having chaired the Independent Panel on Forestry) and a Fellow of WWF, the Society of the Environment and the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management. He is a Vice-President of the Town and Country Planning Association. He is a Patron of the UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA) and Patron of the Densholme Care Farm in East Yorkshire. In 1981 he trained for the Church of England ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and was appointed as Curate to Christ Church Clifton, Bristol where he later became Associate Vicar. From 1990 to 1994 he was Vicar of Emmanuel Church in South Croydon. Aged 46 he was appointed to be Bishop of Hull (1994 - 1998), becoming Bishop of Liverpool four years later (1998 - 2013). He is married to Sarah (Nee Marrow) and they have three adult daughters Harriet, Jemima and Tabitha and two grandchildren, Ben and Sophie. In Hull and Liverpool Bishop James was involved in the regeneration of the cities, in particular chairing the Kensington New Deal for Communities in Liverpool. Working with the people of Kensington they opened the St Francis of Assisi City Academy which took the environment as its specialism. The diocese together with the Catholic Diocese of Liverpool sponsored three City Academies. Together with the Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool Bishop James was Co- President of Liverpool Hope University, the only joint Anglican and Catholic University in Europe. He was a member of the House of Lords from 2003 - 2013 speaking on criminal and restorative justice issues, the environment and urban regeneration. He served on the House of Lords Communications Committee. In 2009 the Bishop was appointed by the Home Secretary to chair the Hillsborough Independent Panel examining all the documentation concerning the death of 96 (now 97) Liverpool football fans at the 1989 FA Cup Semi-final. The Panel reported in September 2012 and this led to the quashing of the original inquests.

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Sara is a leadership coach whose practice draws on over 30 years’ experience managing operations for internationally renowned organisations. She combines her understanding of the qualities needed to lead in high-pressured environments with a strong belief in the transformative power of the coaching conversation. Sara’s work in the media and academia has heightened her appreciation of the stories we tell about ourselves and others. She uses a journalist's instincts to pose incisive questions, while creating a supportive setting for reflection and learning. Serving a global group of clients from wide-ranging sectors, Sara puts a focus on transformation: aligning who we are with how we lead and the difference we want to make in the world. Sara is an associate coach at the Saïd Business School, at the University of Oxford, and continues to collaborate with faculty colleagues on leadership development projects. Before starting her coaching practice, Sara was Chief Operating Officer at the Saïd Business School and held a series of senior roles in BBC News, managing a network of global bureaux and award-winning teams of the best broadcasting talent. She has lived and worked in Russia, the Middle East and Asia, covering global news events, military conflict and natural disasters.

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Greg Clark is a writer, Board Chair, and corporate advisor on transport, cities, real estate, sustainability, investment and innovation with a portfolio of roles in the UK, and globally. He is author of 10 books and 100 reports on cities, mobility, urban economies, investment, and place-leadership. Greg is Hon Global Fellow at the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He is former chair of the OECD Forum of Cities and Regions (1996-2016) and former Global Fellow on cities at the Brookings Institution. He has advised the World Bank, European Investment Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and HSBC Group on transport, cities, sustainability, and innovation. He is expert advisor on the BBC World Service Series, My Perfect City, and co-host of The DNA of Cities podcast. In the UK, he is Chair of the Connected Places Catapult (CPC), the UK’s national innovation accelerator for transport, cities, and place-leadership, and Chair of the Cities Commission for Climate Investment(3Ci) which convenes local leaders and investors to find innovative means to capitalise a just urban transition. He is a Board Member of Transport for London (TfL). He chairs TfL’s Land and Property Committee which oversees TfL property and housing ventures (TTLP). He is member of TfL’s Finance Committee formerly chaired its Investment & Programmes Committee and was a member of the Elizabeth Line Committee. He is Hon Prof of cities and innovation at Strathclyde University.

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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.

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Daniel Benighaus is a Shareholder in the German Real Estate Practice Group at Greenberg Traurig. His work involves advising national and international investors on a wide range of matters such as project developments, real estate transactions, and ongoing asset management. A key part of his role is to provide advice on complex project developments, including entire quarters, smart buildings, joint ventures, and data centers. His unique strength lies in his expertise in the sale of project developments via forward deals. Daniel Benighaus also functions as a notary, focusing primarily on real estate business law. With over ten years of experience in real estate law, Daniel Benighaus has a deep understanding of the field. Before joining Greenberg Traurig, he gained valuable experience working as a lawyer in the real estate sector at various firms, including Olswang Germany.

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Greg Clark is a writer, Board Chair, and corporate advisor on transport, cities, real estate, sustainability, investment and innovation with a portfolio of roles in the UK, and globally. He is author of 10 books and 100 reports on cities, mobility, urban economies, investment, and place-leadership. Greg is Hon Global Fellow at the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He is former chair of the OECD Forum of Cities and Regions (1996-2016) and former Global Fellow on cities at the Brookings Institution. He has advised the World Bank, European Investment Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and HSBC Group on transport, cities, sustainability, and innovation. He is expert advisor on the BBC World Service Series, My Perfect City, and co-host of The DNA of Cities podcast. In the UK, he is Chair of the Connected Places Catapult (CPC), the UK’s national innovation accelerator for transport, cities, and place-leadership, and Chair of the Cities Commission for Climate Investment(3Ci) which convenes local leaders and investors to find innovative means to capitalise a just urban transition. He is a Board Member of Transport for London (TfL). He chairs TfL’s Land and Property Committee which oversees TfL property and housing ventures (TTLP). He is member of TfL’s Finance Committee formerly chaired its Investment & Programmes Committee and was a member of the Elizabeth Line Committee. He is Hon Prof of cities and innovation at Strathclyde University.

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Alex Edmans FBA FAcSS is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk What to Trust in a Post-Truth World and the TEDx talks The Pie-Growing Mindset and The Social Responsibility of Business with a combined 3 million views. He serves as non-executive director of the Investor Forum and on Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing Advisory Board, Novo Nordisk’s Sustainability Advisory Council, and Royal London Asset Management’s Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Alex’s book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, was a Financial Times Book of the Year and has been translated into nine languages, and he is a co-author of Principles of Corporate Finance (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen). His latest book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It was published by Penguin Random House in 2024. He has won 28 teaching awards and was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021.

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Places for London is Transport for London’s wholly owned commercial property company. Places for London is building thousands of homes in a multi-£billion programme of joint ventures that will see high-amenity, mid-density, low-carbon homes delivered in dozens of sites across London – with a target of 50 per cent affordable housing. In addition, Places for London is developing a portfolio of commercial offices and student accommodation schemes – and its newest joint venture will see a network of up to 65 ultra rapid electric vehicle charging hubs established across London. The next phase in Places for London’s development will see collaborations with other public sector bodies, beginning with a partnership with Network Rail Property and the London Borough of Lambeth to redevelop the area around Waterloo station.

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Dr Shane Canavan is a Senior Product Manager at CBRE, co-leading their AI strategy and driving the development of analytics offerings within their technology products. Shane is a recognised expert in applying AI and advanced analytical techniques to solve complex real estate challenges, and his civil engineering background offers a unique view on the infrastructure networks so crucial to real estate. His expertise spans simulation, modelling, and data visualisation, coupled with extensive experience in product and change management

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Anne is a Non-Executive Director at L&G Asset Management Limited , The Crown Estate , a global governing trustee , board member and Chair of Europe at the Urban Land Institute and she is an advisory member at Trinity College Cambridge to the Investment Committee. Anne has an extensive track record in transforming and growing global real asset businesses, working closely with institutional investors and international occupiers. Anne previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Telford Homes, a Trammell Crow Company Developer. She was a Board Director and Chief Investment Officer at PATRIZIA, and a Board director at AXA Real Assets heading Asset Management. Earlier in her career, she held leadership roles at Lazard, Cambridge Place Investment Management, and JLL.

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Daniel Lacalle has a PhD in Economics, he is currently based in Madrid where he is Chief Economist at Tressis S.V., Professor of Global Economics at IE University and IEB, and he is also an investment fund manager. President of the Mises Hispano Institute, Member of the Academic Council of the International Foundation for Freedom (FIL), MEMRI Foundation and Acton Institute. Daniel Graduated in Business Sciences from the Autónoma University of Madrid and has a PhD Cum Laude from the Catholic University of Valencia. He has the title of international financial analyst CIIA and a postgraduate degree from IESE University of Navarra. His career in portfolio management and investing began at the Citadel hedge fund and continued at Ecofin Ltd. and at PIMCO, in the United States and London. It appears at number 5 in the ranking of the most influential economists in the world, according to Richtopia 2020. He has been voted for five years in a row among the top three managers in the Extel Survey, the ranking of Thompson Reuters in the general strategy, oil and electric categories. Daniel Lacalle writes a weekly column in the Spanish newspaper El Español, and collaborates monthly on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, as well as Antena 3 TV, Cuatro TV, Telecinco TV, BBN Times, World Economic Forum, Hedge Eye, Epoch Times and Mises Wire, among others. Author of books on Economics translated into several languages, including: “We the Markets”, “Journey to Economic Freedom”, “The Big Trap”, “Freedom or Equality”, and the last one, “Make Your Money Grow” (Deusto,2022).

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Greg Clark is a writer, Board Chair, and corporate advisor on transport, cities, real estate, sustainability, investment and innovation with a portfolio of roles in the UK, and globally. He is author of 10 books and 100 reports on cities, mobility, urban economies, investment, and place-leadership. Greg is Hon Global Fellow at the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He is former chair of the OECD Forum of Cities and Regions (1996-2016) and former Global Fellow on cities at the Brookings Institution. He has advised the World Bank, European Investment Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and HSBC Group on transport, cities, sustainability, and innovation. He is expert advisor on the BBC World Service Series, My Perfect City, and co-host of The DNA of Cities podcast. In the UK, he is Chair of the Connected Places Catapult (CPC), the UK’s national innovation accelerator for transport, cities, and place-leadership, and Chair of the Cities Commission for Climate Investment(3Ci) which convenes local leaders and investors to find innovative means to capitalise a just urban transition. He is a Board Member of Transport for London (TfL). He chairs TfL’s Land and Property Committee which oversees TfL property and housing ventures (TTLP). He is member of TfL’s Finance Committee formerly chaired its Investment & Programmes Committee and was a member of the Elizabeth Line Committee. He is Hon Prof of cities and innovation at Strathclyde University.

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Monica Magnussen, Head of International Affairs, Department of Climate and Urban Development, City of Copenhagen She holds a MA in International Business Communication and European Studies from Copenhagen Business School. She has been working with the climate agenda for 15 years. For the past 10 years she has been with the City of Copenhagen working in the area of international relations, public/private partnerships and sustainable urban development. In that period, she has been often-used speaker to delegations, press and events and has been part of planning larger summits such as the C40 Mayor’s Summit and European Green Capital. Prior to this role she has worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the EU presidency and the UN Climate Conference COP 15. Furthermore, she has held positions within the wind energy sector and at the University of Copenhagen.

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Bob Jordan has over 20 years’ experience in housing policy, leading national efforts to increase housing supply and improve affordability in Ireland. As former CEO of the government's national Housing Agency and Special Adviser to the Minister for Housing, he worked across government, local aurhorities, housing associations, and the construction sector to expand social and affordable housing, including the introduction of cost rental housing. He also led the national rollout of the Housing First programme to address rough sleeping and long-term homelessness. He currently chairs an international board advising the Czech State Investment Promotion Fund on an ambitious national affordable rental initiative. A Senior Research Fellow at University College Dublin’s Geary Institute for Public Policy, his research work focuses on systemic approaches to the delivery of affordable housing and solutions to homelesness. Bob also contributes to CaraDem, a new Irish-led democracy initiative founded by two former Deputy Prime Ministers.

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Roger Orf is the former vice-chairman of Apollo Global Management and previously was Citigroup's global CEO of their real estate business. He has spent the majority of his career investing in European real estate markets since arriving in the UK in 1991 while working for Goldman Sachs. Following his retirement from Goldman Sachs, Roger embarked on an entrepreneurial path, most notably founding E-Shelter GmbH, a German based data centre business which he and his partners sold to NTT for over €l billion euros. Roger has incubated other prominent real estate companies including Regus, the now the largest serviced office business in the world and Vonovia the largest German residential business. He has been a member of the Chicago Booth Council since 2015 and has previously served on the boards of Atrium European Real Estate, the Urban Land Institute, Regus PLC, and the Ambassador Theatre Group. Roger earned his bachelor's degree magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Georgetown University and holds both a JD and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

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Gideon Rachman translates his extensive travels and his remarkable access to world leaders into an insider’s view of global events. He speaks authoritatively about politics, economics and globalisation as they apply to Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, and more. At the FT, Gideon writes a weekly column on international politics as well as feature articles. He has reported for the FT from all over the world. Before joining the FT in 2006, he worked for The Economist for 15 years in a range of jobs, including as a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Bangkok and Washington and as business editor. Gideon’s most recent book is ‘The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World‘ (April 2022) – this is now being translated into 14 languages. His FT Podcast ‘ The Rachman Review’ is amassing new listeners weekly – it was awarded as ‘International Podcast of the Year’ in January 2025 by the annual Political Podcast Awards. In this book, he finds global coherence in the chaos of the new nationalism, leadership cults and hostility to liberal democracy. His prior book was ‘Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century ‘ – this illustrated how the growing wealth of Asia nations is transforming the international balance of power. The Sunday Times called it as “masterly account” and the Daily Telegraph called it “superb“. Paul Kennedy of Yale University commented – “This really is one of those works where you can say you wished our political leaders had read and pondered its great implications.” Gideon’s earlier Zero-Sum World, predicted the current trade war between the US and China. It was published under the title Zero-Sum Future in the US in 2011. The New York Times called it “perhaps the best one-volume account now available of the huge post-communist spread of personal freedom and economic prosperity.” The Independent called it “an important timely book that should be obligatory reading for all interested in what is happening beyond our shores.” Niall Ferguson commenting on this book hailed it as ‘’An inimitable combination of dry wit and analytical clarity’. Gideon received the 2016 Orwell Prize for journalism, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing and the 2016 European Press Prize: Commentator Award. Gideon also received the Overseas Press Club of America’s 2017 Best Commentary Award for the best commentary in any medium on international news. His columns continue to cover a wide range of global issues from the economics and politics of the euro-crisis, to US foreign policy and the rise of China.

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Greg Clark is a writer, Board Chair, and corporate advisor on transport, cities, real estate, sustainability, investment and innovation with a portfolio of roles in the UK, and globally. He is author of 10 books and 100 reports on cities, mobility, urban economies, investment, and place-leadership. Greg is Hon Global Fellow at the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He is former chair of the OECD Forum of Cities and Regions (1996-2016) and former Global Fellow on cities at the Brookings Institution. He has advised the World Bank, European Investment Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and HSBC Group on transport, cities, sustainability, and innovation. He is expert advisor on the BBC World Service Series, My Perfect City, and co-host of The DNA of Cities podcast. In the UK, he is Chair of the Connected Places Catapult (CPC), the UK’s national innovation accelerator for transport, cities, and place-leadership, and Chair of the Cities Commission for Climate Investment(3Ci) which convenes local leaders and investors to find innovative means to capitalise a just urban transition. He is a Board Member of Transport for London (TfL). He chairs TfL’s Land and Property Committee which oversees TfL property and housing ventures (TTLP). He is member of TfL’s Finance Committee formerly chaired its Investment & Programmes Committee and was a member of the Elizabeth Line Committee. He is Hon Prof of cities and innovation at Strathclyde University.

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Rebecca joined energy technology group Octopus Energy as Chief Product & Marketing Officer (CPMO) seven years ago. Her job spans everything from developing, producing and manufacturing Octopus’ first piece of proprietary hardware, the Octopus Home Mini, to leading on marketing and communications campaigns across 32 countries and 5 continents. Prior to Octopus, Rebecca was a head of product at Centrica-funded Hive, taking it from a kickabout start-up to the leading smart home provider in the UK. She graduated from the Ogilvy Group Graduate Fellowship scheme, and holds a Bachelor's degree from Nottingham University Business School.

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Head of Asset management, Olivier ROCHEFORT joined SwissLife Asset Managers France (SLAM FR) in 2015. SLAM FR belongs to a European company in charge of RE Assets located in France, Belux and Southern Europe (Italy, Spain & Portugal) which represent more than 400 Assets – 14 €Billions, including Tertiairy assets (Offices, Logistics, Retails) and Living assets (Residential, Student houses, Senior Houses, Hotels, Campgrounds). At SLAM FR, Asset management integrates the main following activities : Disposal transactions, (Re)letting transactions, Property managers supervision, Interface with external appraisers, Capex management, Business plan modelling…

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Chantal Clavier is Head of Practice for Real Estate in Europe and Africa and sits in London & Paris. Chantal has been in search since 2001 and specialising in Real Estate and Real Estate Hospitality globally since 2005. She also leads all of the Heidrick global Real Estate mandates. Chantal has operated across the whole sector and has much track record in Board/ CEO and portfolio company hires across sectors. Before joining Heidrick & Struggles, Chantal played a significant role in re-establishing and growing the Real Estate practice in the UK/ Europe for another leading firm, working for a multitude of clients who invested, developed and asset managed property globally, regionally and locally. Her earlier career was with Cable & Wireless in Sydney, covering Corporate Real Estate Australasia. Chantal is an active member of the British Property Federation, Urban Land Institute and on the Leadership Committee of The Kings Trust.

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Andrew Hallissey serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the Colliers’ Global Occupier Services business. He is responsible for executing the strategic vision, client experience, driving growth, and leading the global platform of regional and functional experts who provide exceptional service delivery for occupier clients across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. In addition to his global leadership responsibility, Andrew also directly leads Colliers’ Occupier Services business in the EMEA region. Andrew has a wealth of knowledge and a deep understanding of the strategic real estate and workplace priorities for major corporations, having advised dozens of Fortune 500 companies around the world on developing real estate value creation and transformation solutions. Prior to joining Colliers, Andrew worked for CBRE where he held a range of senior leadership roles within their Global Workplace Solutions business in Chicago, Hong Kong, New York and London. He has gained extensive global experience advising large corporations on their global real estate organization and strategy over the last 20+ years, having worked across EMEA, North America and Asia Pacific.

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Isabelle Scemama is Global Head of AXA IM Alts. Isabelle oversees AXA IM’s €185bn+ alternative business unit, AXA IM Alts, which employs over 800 people located in 17 offices, serving the needs of more than 600 clients globally. AXA IM Alts is a global leader in alternatives asset management, putting ESG at the heart of its investment approach, with an established position in real estate (#1 real estate investment manager in Europe, #9 worldwide), infrastructure (#3 global infrastructure debt capital raiser), private debt (#1 CRE debt capital raiser globally, #4 global private debt capital raiser) alternative credit and private equity. In her role, she leads the definition and execution of AXA IM Alts global strategy as well as in the supervision of its day-to-day management. Isabelle also sits on AXA IM – Real Estate and Infrastructure Investment Committees and chairs the AXA IM Alts Management Board. Isabelle joined AXA IM - Real Assets in 2001 to develop the third-party business. Notably, she launched the CRE and infrastructure debt lending platforms in 2005 and 2013 respectively, now firmly established as global leaders, before taking responsibility of the full fund management activity of AXA IM- Real Assets. She was later appointed CEO of AXA IM – Real Assets in 2017, a role to which was added the responsibility of the overall alternatives’ asset management activity of AXA IM, as Global Head of AXA IM Alts in 2020. Isabelle has more than 33 years of experience in the alternatives asset management industry, out of which 21 years within AXA IM. Before joining AXA IM, Isabelle held various positions in corporate and real estate financing at Paribas. Isabelle graduated from IEP Paris (Sciences Po) with a degree in Political Science in 1989.

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John R. Klopp is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and Head of Global Real Assets for Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Mr. Klopp joined the firm in 2010 and served as Co-CEO and Co-CIO of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing until early 2016. From 1997 to 2009, Mr. Klopp was the Chief Executive Officer of Capital Trust, Inc. (NYSE: CT), a publicly-traded real estate finance and investment management company that he co-founded. Prior to this, Mr. Klopp was the founder and Managing Partner of Victor Capital Group, L.P. from 1989 until 1997. Mr. Klopp had previously served as Managing Director and Co-Head of Chemical Realty Corporation, the real estate merchant banking arm of Chemical Bank. Mr. Klopp is the Chair of Columbia Business School’s Real Estate Advisory Committee and an active member of various real estate organizations including the Pension Real Estate Association. He received a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University and an MBA in Finance and Real Estate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Kristina serves as Vice President of Global Real Estate & Facilities for Apple Inc. In this role, she has global responsibility for real estate transactions & administration, construction, facilities operations & maintenance, strategic workplace planning, environment, health & safety, renewable energy and commute services. Kristina has been with Apple since 2013. Prior to joining Apple, she served as the Vice President for Real Estate Development & Asset Management at the University of Southern California, where she later served as a member of the Sol Price School of Public Policy Board of Councilors. Prior to USC, Kristina was a partner in the law firm TroyGould where she practiced real estate, land use and construction law. Throughout her career she has been actively involved in a variety of organizations, including Urban Land Institute (Global Governing Trustee and Global Board of Directors Member), Design-Build Institute of America (regional president), Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation (Infrastructure Committee member), California Fair Employment & Housing Commission (commissioner), and Century City Bar Association (president). Kristina holds a BA from UC Santa Barbara, two masters degrees from the University of Southern California (construction management and real estate development) and a law degree from Loyola Law School.

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Dorota joined Colliers in 2018 as Director and Senior Partner, Head of Corporate Finance and Living Services for CEE. She leads a team of real estate professionals with proven experience gained in private equity and investment banking as well as broader living sector. Dorota is responsible for comprehensive financial advisory, including debt financing, mezzanine financing, raising capital and gaining capital partners, and offering support in acquiring companies and entering the stock exchange. Heading living services department, she specializes in advisory, transactions and operations targeting apartments for sale (Built To Sell), flats for rent (Built To Rent) private dormitories (PBSA), co-living, senior living, micro apartments, serviced apartments and other types of housing schemes. Under Dorota’s leadership Colliers was part of all major living and equity transactions in Poland and CEE. Before joining Colliers International, Dorota Wysokinska-Kuzdra spent 11 years as Senior Partner at Griffin Real Estate, where she was responsible for the Group’s management and investments, and for the first mezzanine fund operating in Poland. Recently, she has been involved in the creation of a logistics platform co-managed by Griffin. Earlier, as CEO at Griffin Premium RE, the first REIT fund, she successfully launched the fund on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. She was a member of the team responsible for acquiring shares in Echo Investment SA, one of the biggest transactions on the Polish real estate market, in which she was responsible for due diligence and financing the acquisition. Before joining Griffin, for over 10 years, she held director positions in the HypoVereinsbank / UniCredit Group, and in their subsidiaries, monitoring real estate investment banking and managing real estate. Dorota Wysokinska-Kuzdra has graduated from SGH Warsaw School of Economics, the University of Cologne and the University of Duisburg-Essen. Dorota was chairperson in the Polish branch of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) between 2018-2021 – the international non-profit organisation that supports responsible planning and developing of cities, which functions as a platform of knowledge exchange between experts and participants in the real estate market, both in Poland and abroad. In 2020, in addition to the Polish role, she has been elected to join the Executive Committee of ULI Europe and is now creating ULI CEE HUB. She is a Global Governing Trustee for ULI Global.

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James Von Klemperer is President and Design Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates where he began as a young architect in 1983. His work ranges in scale from a house to a city, and he contributes closely to these efforts from conception to completion. In addition to focusing on his own projects, he leads the community of designers within the firm in exploring shared architectural agendas and goals. As President of the firm, he is responsible for leading the staff of 700 people in 6 offices around the world. A major focus of Jamie’s work has been to heighten the role that large buildings play in making urban space. He has explored this theme in major projects in Asia, including the China Resources Headquarters in Shenzhen, Plaza 66 and Jing An Kerry Center in Shanghai, China Central Place in Beijing, and the 123-story Lotte World Tower in Seoul. In New York, his design for One Vanderbilt will link Midtown’s tallest tower directly to Grand Central Terminal. Each of these projects creates strong symbiotic relationships between program space and the public realm. At the larger scale, his design for New Songdo City extends this challenge to the scope of urban planning. Jamie’s designs have been recognized for the marriage of efficient program with adventurous form. His Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC, Dongbu Financial Center in Seoul, Park Fifth Residential Project in Los Angeles, and Riverside 66 Urban Market in Tianjin have all received AIA design awards. In London, Jamie is leading the design of the Wanda Hotel and Residential Towers in One Nine Elms. He is also active on the continent, in particular in Paris, where he is completing a building for the Ministry of Justice at the Parc du Millénaire and in Lyon where he is designing a series of buildings within the Part Dieu Station Precinct. Jamie has lectured at Harvard, Columbia, Tsinghua, Tongji, Seoul National, Yonsei Universities, the ESA in Paris, AMO in Lyon,

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Mahdi is the Co-Head of Fund Management at PATRIZIA, heading the Real Estate Fund Management team since 2024. In addition, he serves as Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Europe ex DACH, in a role that serves as important on the ground interface to clients both overseeing our regional investment strategies and contribute to product development. He joined PATRIZIA in 2020 as Head of Global Investment Strategy & Research and Investment Solutions. Based in London, he oversees the firm’s real estate house investment strategies, and the funds’ execution and investment performance. Mahdi chairs PATRIZIA’s Real Estate Investment Committee and serves on the Client and Product Committee and PGP Board. Previously, Mahdi worked at LaSalle as a European Board Member, leading the European strategy and research team and serving on LaSalle’s Debt & Special Situations and private equity real estate investment committees. Mahdi held leading roles at AEW, MSCI IPD, ESSEC Business School, and Caisse des Dépôts. He is also a regular keynote speaker. Mahdi holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Finance from EHESS (France) and the LSE, a Masters in Financial Economics from Dauphine University, and is an active member of MSCI IPD, INREV, ANREV and NCREIF.

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Mrs. Kroeger is the Chief Executive Officer Europe of PIMCO Prime Real Estate. She is a Member of the Management Committee and a voting Member on the Equity Investment Committee. Prior to this, Mrs. Kroeger was the CEO of North & Central Europe having joined the company in 2009, then named Allianz Real Estate, as a member of the investment team and subsequently Head of Acquisitions & International Asset Management for Germany. Before joining the company Mrs. Kroeger worked for Goldman Sachs Group in the Real Estate Principal Investment Area. Mrs. Kroeger holds a number of board roles within key industry associations, including non-executive director of IPUT, a board member of ZIA and Quo Vadis, and a member of ULI’s Global Governing Trustees. Mrs. Kroeger graduated from the European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel (Dipl.-Kauffrau) and holds an MBA from the Georgia State University, Atlanta.

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John R. Klopp is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and Head of Global Real Assets for Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Mr. Klopp joined the firm in 2010 and served as Co-CEO and Co-CIO of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing until early 2016. From 1997 to 2009, Mr. Klopp was the Chief Executive Officer of Capital Trust, Inc. (NYSE: CT), a publicly-traded real estate finance and investment management company that he co-founded. Prior to this, Mr. Klopp was the founder and Managing Partner of Victor Capital Group, L.P. from 1989 until 1997. Mr. Klopp had previously served as Managing Director and Co-Head of Chemical Realty Corporation, the real estate merchant banking arm of Chemical Bank. Mr. Klopp is the Chair of Columbia Business School’s Real Estate Advisory Committee and an active member of various real estate organizations including the Pension Real Estate Association. He received a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University and an MBA in Finance and Real Estate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Isabelle Scemama is Global Head of AXA IM Alts. Isabelle oversees AXA IM’s €185bn+ alternative business unit, AXA IM Alts, which employs over 800 people located in 17 offices, serving the needs of more than 600 clients globally. AXA IM Alts is a global leader in alternatives asset management, putting ESG at the heart of its investment approach, with an established position in real estate (#1 real estate investment manager in Europe, #9 worldwide), infrastructure (#3 global infrastructure debt capital raiser), private debt (#1 CRE debt capital raiser globally, #4 global private debt capital raiser) alternative credit and private equity. In her role, she leads the definition and execution of AXA IM Alts global strategy as well as in the supervision of its day-to-day management. Isabelle also sits on AXA IM – Real Estate and Infrastructure Investment Committees and chairs the AXA IM Alts Management Board. Isabelle joined AXA IM - Real Assets in 2001 to develop the third-party business. Notably, she launched the CRE and infrastructure debt lending platforms in 2005 and 2013 respectively, now firmly established as global leaders, before taking responsibility of the full fund management activity of AXA IM- Real Assets. She was later appointed CEO of AXA IM – Real Assets in 2017, a role to which was added the responsibility of the overall alternatives’ asset management activity of AXA IM, as Global Head of AXA IM Alts in 2020. Isabelle has more than 33 years of experience in the alternatives asset management industry, out of which 21 years within AXA IM. Before joining AXA IM, Isabelle held various positions in corporate and real estate financing at Paribas. Isabelle graduated from IEP Paris (Sciences Po) with a degree in Political Science in 1989.

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Anne Kavanagh is a senior advisor to residential and mixed-use developer Telford Homes a Trammell Crow Company, and the company’s former CEO, transitioning in July 2024 to focus on her non-executive roles. Her roles now include Chair ULI Europe and ULI Global Board, Crown Estate Commissioner, and advisor to the Investment Committee at Trinity College Cambridge. At Telford Homes, one of London’s leading sustainable developers, she focused on designing and delivering highquality 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.

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She is an alumna of RSM, Erasmus University in the Netherlands and ESSEC Business School in France and speaks fluently four languages. At ULI, Ariana is the ULI Europe YL Chair since 2024, where she is representing our over 1,700 Young Leaders in Europe and a passionate advocate of making future leadership exceptional instead of an exception. Privately, Ariana spends her time designing wardrobe, playing tennis or a recently discovered passion: rolling on a road bike.

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James Jacobs is a Managing Director and Global Head of Real Assets within the Private Capital Advisory team. James joined Lazard in 2008 to help establish the real estate fundraising practice within PCA. He focuses on advising General Partners, Fund Managers and Investment Professionals within Real Assets on structuring and raising capital to fund their investment activities. Since joining Lazard, James has been involved in aggregating in excess of $40bn of equity on a primary basis for over 70 real estate funds as well as having advised on over $10bn of secondary transactions. Clients have included Azora, BauMont, CarVal, Delancey, ECE, Fifth Wall, Greystar, Henderson Park, Meridia, Nordic Real Estate Partners, Paloma, Qatari Diar, Revcap, Revelop and Tristan Capital. Prior to joining Lazard, James spent over 5 years at DTZ Corporate Finance, a real estate investment banking team, where he was a Director specialising in fund raising for private real estate vehicles. Between 1999-2002, James was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in London. Cambridge University, M.A. in Economics.

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Anne Kavanagh is a senior advisor to residential and mixed-use developer Telford Homes a Trammell Crow Company, and the company’s former CEO, transitioning in July 2024 to focus on her non-executive roles. Her roles now include Chair ULI Europe and ULI Global Board, Crown Estate Commissioner, and advisor to the Investment Committee at Trinity College Cambridge. At Telford Homes, one of London’s leading sustainable developers, she focused on designing and delivering highquality 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.

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Bronwen Maddox took up the post of Director and Chief Executive of Chatham House in August 2022. Before joining Chatham House, Bronwen was Director of the Institute for Government (2016-2022), an independent think tank based in London promoting better government. From 2010 to 2016 she was editor and chief executive of Prospect, the monthly current affairs magazine. Before that, she served as chief foreign commentator, foreign editor and US editor at The Times, after a period at the Financial Times where she ran award-winning investigations and wrote economics editorials. Before becoming a journalist, Bronwen was an investment analyst in the City and a director of Kleinwort Benson Securities, where she ran its highly-rated team analysing world media stocks. Bronwen is a Visiting Professor in the Policy Institute at King’s College London, Honorary Governor of Ditchley, an honorary fellow of the British Academy, and a council member of Research England, one of the research councils of UK Research & Innovation. She writes frequent op-ed columns for the Financial Times and broadcasts widely. Bronwen has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from St John’s College, Oxford.

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Maximilian leads the Real Assets department, which invests globally across commercial real estate, the energy chain, and infrastructure. He also provides regional leadership in Europe. He joined CPP Investments in 2015 and has held various senior leadership roles, including as Head of Direct Private Equity group within the Private Equity department, and Head of Portfolio Value Creation, a group that supports management teams of individual investments to achieve full value potential. Prior to joining CPP Investments, Maximilian spent more than seven years at Permira Advisers LLP, focusing on private equity transactions, and was most recently responsible for the firm’s global capital markets activities. Before that, he was an investment banker for Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas in London. Maximilian holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. He currently serves on the board of Boldyn Networks.

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International private markets professional with a proven track record of developing, launching and successfully marketing new real estate investment solutions. Member of AllianceBernstein's Private Alternatives platform, co-leading business development for the global commercial real estate debt business. Additional experience includes sourcing and underwriting of real estate private equity transactions, evaluation of corporate M&A opportunities and screening of the European listed real estate sector for potential public-to-private transactions.

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Amal Del Monaco is a seasoned global real estate investment executive with over 25 years of experience in fund management, asset management, and private equity. She held executive roles at PATRIZIA SE, where she was Co-Head of Investment Management and Global Head of Asset Management, leading international teams managing €40 billion portfolios and driving performance through strategic transformation and operational excellence. Previously, Amal held senior leadership roles at AXA IM Alts, leading major investments across Europe and the U.S. She is an active board member and thought leader in the real estate industry, serving on committees for ULI, INREV, and IEIF. Amal holds an MBA from ISG Paris and a Master’s degree in Business and Management from the University of Granada. She is also a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

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Andrei Martin is a partner at PLP Architecture and a founding partner at PLP Labs. Andrei has over 20 years’ experience of residential, commercial, and master planning projects in the UK, China, Europe, USA, and the Middle East. Andrei is a European Living Concepts Product Council member and a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster. He has published, lectured, and exhibited internationally. As a designer, researcher and educator, Andrei is interested in the potential of architecture to transform urban experience and reshape contemporary culture. Andrei’s experience includes a wide range of program types and project scales. He has led the design for The Collective Old Oak, the first large-scale co-living building in world, as well as other numerous alternative residential, mixed-use and mixed-generational hybrid typologies that redefine the architecture of contemporary living and form a strategy for the future of collective urban housing. Andrei is a Romanian/American national living in London. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Kansas and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

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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.

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Jorge is CEO of Metrovacesa since 2016. With over €2.5 bill. of assets under management. Metrovacesa is one of the leading real estate developers in Spain, representing one of the highest valued and most attractive land banks in the country. Jorge joined Metrovacesa to reorganize the company and relaunch its development activity after the economic crisis in Spain, leading the company's IPO in 2018. Previously, he worked 12 years as top executive director at Grupo LAR, first as Head of Europe (leading all European operations including Germany, France, Poland, Romania, Latvia, Hungary and the Baltic States) and then as Head of Spain, holding full responsibility over €1 bill. of assets under management and assuming a key role in the IPO and subsequent growth of LAR España REIT. Before Grupo Lar, he was COO of Excite@Home Europe (broadband internet access and multimedia content creation), Managing Director & Partner of Fun & Basics (fashion clothing, footwear and accessories), and Manager at Boston Consulting Group (BCG, global management consulting). Jorge has an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BSc and MSc in Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management from ICAI, at Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid. He is also Founder and President of Fundación Deporte y Desafío (NGO "Sport & Challenge Foundation").

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Kristina serves as Vice President, Places for Apple Inc. In this role, she has global responsibility for the full life cycle of all of Apple's real estate assets (retail stores, offices, R&D facilities, data centers, industrial), including: real estate transactions & administration, construction, facilities operations & maintenance, strategic workplace planning, environment, health & safety, renewable energy & conservation, and commute services. Kristina has been with Apple since 2013. Prior to joining Apple, she served as the Vice President for Real Estate Development & Asset Management at the University of Southern California, where she later served as a member of the Sol Price School of Public Policy Board of Councilors. Prior to USC, Kristina was a partner in the law firm TroyGould where she practiced real estate, land use and construction law. Throughout her career she has been actively involved in a variety of organizations, including Urban Land Institute (Global Governing Trustee, Global Board of Directors Member, Americas Executive Committee Chair), Design-Build Institute of America (regional president), Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation (Infrastructure Committee member), California Fair Employment & Housing Commission (commissioner), and Century City Bar Association (president). Kristina holds a BA from UC Santa Barbara, two masters degrees from the University of Southern California (construction management and real estate development) and a law degree from Loyola Law School.

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Yasemin is the Relationships Manager at Placemaking AI, an AI copiloting platform that helps optimize commercial destinations by decoding behavioral patterns and benchmarking them globally. She bridges insight and execution, enabling more human-centered placemaking decisions. She holds a degree in Operations Research: Industrial Engineering from Columbia University, with a minor in Entrepreneurship. Yasemin began her career in management consulting at PwC Strategy&, then joined Amazon as a Project Manager, focusing on scalable, customer-centric solutions. She later co-founded a jewelry brand with her twin sister and contributed to her family’s natural stone business, leading its expansion into the U.S. market. At Placemaking AI, Yasemin combines analytical expertise with creative vision to help transform malls, streets, and public spaces into authentic, engaging destinations.

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