The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has recruited Aleksandra Smith-Kozlowska as a director in the research team, focussing predominantly on ESG and environmental sustainability across the built environment.

Aleksandra joins ULI from JustOne, a sustainability consultancy, where she worked with leading real estate firms, advising them on ESG strategies, net zero carbon plans and implementing sustainability initiatives in practice.

Before that, she spent six years at JLL, acting both as a sustainability consultant to large property firms and an in-house sustainability manager for JLL EMEA.

Aleksandra will be working with the ULI research teams in Europe and its US headquarters to support the company’s sustainability mission priorities and wider initiatives. A key element of her role will be focused on advancing the C Change programme in Europe – which was set up to support the built environment community to speed up the decarbonization process and scale up initiatives. She will also be working with ULI’s Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability at ULI’s HQ in the United States and within it, the ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance, a research organization focused on climate mitigation, making the business case for green buildings by tying carbon reductions to increased asset value.

Lisette van Doorn, CEO, ULI Europe, comments, “In close collaboration with our members from across the globe, we have developed extensive programmes geared towards accelerating the decarbonisation of our industry. Given the urgency to reduce emissions and demand for collective action to future proof our built environment, our members are highly engaged with our mission.  Aleksandra will play an important role within the sustainability research team here, collaborating with our global colleagues, and she will be working closely with our members to pilot some of the progressive measures ULI is developing.”

Marta Schantz, Co-Executive Director of the ULI Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate, adds, “We are thrilled to have Aleksandra join the ULI research team, advancing the organization’s net zero mission priority. The business case for sustainable real estate has never been stronger, and Aleks brings a tremendous amount of expertise and strength to ULI’s thought leadership and member engagement efforts. By bridging the US HQ and Europe teams, she’ll also help ensure our content is globally relevant in addressing the global climate crisis we are facing.”

Aleksandra Smith-Kozlowska, Director, Sustainability Research, ULI, adds, “Throughout my career, I have supported a wide range of organisations, from micro-businesses to international corporates,  in shaping their ESG agendas and making meaningful progress towards sustainability. I look forward to working with ULI and its unrivalled network of industry experts to effect much needed change.

In October, ULI will be hosting the C Change conference in Copenhagen. For more information see here:

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For further information please contact:

Gemma Haimes, Director, Marketing & Communications, ULI Europe, [email protected]

Notes to Editors

About the Urban Land Institute

• The Urban Land Institute is a non-profit education and research institute supported by its members. Its mission is to shape the future of the built environment for transformative impact in communities worldwide. Established in 1936, the institute has over 48,000 members worldwide representing all aspects of land use and development disciplines.
• ULI has almost 5,500 members in Europe across 15 National Council country networks. For more information, please visit europe.uli.org, or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram.

About ULI C Change

• C Change is a ULI-led programme to mobilise the European real estate industry to decarbonise. We’re a movement empowering everyone to work together for a sustainable future. We connect the brightest minds from across the value chain. We challenge barriers, share expertise, and champion innovation to move swiftly to accelerate solutions that will transform our industry and protect our planet. C Change means real change.
• C Change was formed in late 2021 by a group of leading real estate players that was united in its aim to focus on collaboration to ensure companies large and small have access to practical solutions and education on decarbonisation.

About ULI Greenprint

• The ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance is a research organization focused on climate mitigation and makes the business case for green buildings by tying carbon reductions to increased asset value. ULI Greenprint also includes a worldwide membership alliance of leading real estate owners and developers committed to improving the environmental performance of the global real estate industry, striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030, and achieving net zero carbon operations by 2050. ULI Greenprint is organized within the ULI Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate, which also oversees the Urban Resilience Program and the Building Healthy Places initiative.