Imogen Moon leads Spencer Stuart’s Real Estate practice in Europe. She advises investors and developers across the region on front office hires across all functions and across the capital structure. Additionally, she helps new entrants access the European market, through both organic build and team lift out strategies. She is also passionate about enabling clients to access candidates from diverse backgrounds.
Imogen read English at Oxford University. She sits on the board of the Academy of Real Assets.

Imogen Moon

Consultant

Spencer Stuart

Andrew Baum

Andrew Baum

CHAIRMAN | Newcore Capital Management LLP

EMERITUS PROFESSOR | University of Oxford

MEMBER, GLOBAL ADVISORY PANEL | QIC

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER | Ashby Capital

Sabina Reeves is Global Chief Economist and Global Head of Real Assets Research for CBRE Global Investors with full operational responsibility for the firm's strategy and research team and a specific role in selecting the economic scenarios and macro risk assessments that power the firm's real estate forecasts. Mrs Reeves is a member of the firm's Executive Committee, Global Investment Committee, and European and Global Leadership Teams.
Previously, Mrs Reeves served as Head of Research for the firm's EMEA region and the global quantitative team. Mrs Reeves joined the industry in 2001 and started working for CBRE Global Investors in 2008. Mrs Reeves was previously Chief Economist at IPD. Prior to IPD, she worked for Capital Economics, where she developed their UK residential and commercial property market analysis and forecasting service.
Mrs Reeves studied economics at Lincoln College, Oxford University, and is a member of the Society of Business Economists, the Society of Property Researchers, and the Investment Property Forum.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Sabina Reeves

Chief Economist & Head of Insights & Intelligence

CBRE Investment Management

Edward Eban

Director, Real Estate Strategic Advisory

Evercore

MODERATOR

Niki Dembitz

Portfolio Manager

PIMCO

Ajay Phull is a Managing Director, Real Estate, Europe for CDPQ.
Ajay has over 15 years of experience in real estate investment and has been responsible for formulating, leading, and executing investment strategies across the risk-return spectrum, including leading and growing platform/portfolio investments.
Prior to joining CDPQ, he was Vice President at Vanke, one of the world’s largest real estate investment and development companies. At Vanke, he was responsible for formulating a UK investment strategy and sourcing real estate investment opportunities. Prior to that, he worked at Brockton Capital, an opportunistic private equity real estate investor.
He began his career at PwC’s Real Estate Corporate Finance and Restructuring team, advising on complex structuring and restructuring transactions.

Ajay Phull

Managing Director, Real Estate, Europe

CDPQ

Nic Aaviku

Principal

HOOPP

Anja Ritchie is a member of the real estate team. Prior to joining StepStone, Anja worked at Cara Investment GmbH, a Germany-based Family Office, where she was responsible for the firm’s Private Equity and Real Estate fund selection. Prior to that, she was a senior analyst alternative investments at Bank of Oklahoma after starting her career at ClearRidge, a boutique corporate advisory firm in the United States. Mrs. Ritchie holds a master’s degree in Management from HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in International Business Administration from the European University Viadrina. She is also a CAIA charter holder.

Anja Ritchie

Partner

StepStone

Alexander van Riel is the Regional Head of Continental Europe for CBRE Investment Management's Indirect Real Estate Strategies business. Based in Amsterdam, Sander is responsible for the relationship and portfolio management of clients, investment sourcing, selection, and monitoring of investments in the EMEA region. He is a member of the Indirect Real Estate Securities Executive Committee and Investment Committee.
Sander has been in the European property investment industry since 1999. He began his current role in June 2006. Prior to joining CBRE Investment Management, Sander was an Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Achmea in Amsterdam and Aberdeen Property Investors in Stockholm.
Sander holds a master’s degree in Spatial Science from Rijks-Universiteit Groningen and is a CFA charter holder.

Sander Van Riel

Head EMEA

CBRE IM Indirect Private Real Estate

Claire-Louise Deanfield is a Managing Director in the PJT Park Hill Real Estate Group at PJT Partners, based in London. Prior to joining PJT Park Hill, Claire-Louise led the European Real Estate Transaction Management team in Lazard’s Private Capital Advisory Group in London, having started with the firm in 2008. Claire-Louise received a BSc in Economics from University College London.

Claire-Louise Deanfield

Managing Director

Park Hill Real Estate

Nicholas Schiloff is the managing partner of Modal, a London based investment firm focusing on acquiring and managing Industrial Outdoor Storage assets across the UK and Europe. Nick co-founded Modal in 2023 and oversees the management of the firm with overall responsibility of investment, asset management and operations. Nick has over 15 years of real estate investing experience with previous roles at Blackstone and Hines, and has worked on over €13bn of public and private transactions across a variety of property types. Nick holds a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from The Cooper Union, a real estate master’s from Columbia University and an MBA from Wharton.

Nick Schiloff

Managing Partner

Modal Property

Peter Day

CEO

Axel Logistics

Stefanie Price is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s London Real Estate Department.  Stefanie practices in all aspects of real estate law and in particular advises clients in relation to high value commercial sales and acquisitions for both domestic and overseas investors, corporate lettings and global leasing portfolios and the real estate aspects of corporate transactions.  Stefanie also has experience advising individuals and foreign embassies on high-value residential transactions, as well as extensive experience acting for luxury retail clients.  Stefanie is individually ranked in Legal 500 and Chambers.  Stefanie studied Land Economy at Cambridge University and is a member of the Cambridge University Land Society.

Stefanie Price

Partner

Baker Mckenzie

Over the past 40 years, Despina has consistently pioneered the science of evaluating evolving employee priorities and trends of office users and their implications for real estate investors.
This has led to innovation and implementation of transformative workplace environments for global corporates such as: Accenture, BBC, Cisco, GSK, Google, HSBC, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley & Unilever and substantial improvements in the design of exemplary real estate developments for investors worldwide.
In her role, at C&W she inputs across the firm’s global business, on the rapidly-changing context of work and its impact on employee engagement, productivity, wellbeing and the future purpose of the office and impact on cities.
She is the immediate past President of the British Council of Offices (BCO) and the host of the ‘Purpose of Place’ podcast. She regularly lectures, writes and contributes to media, research and publications on the future of work, place & the city and serves on various advisory boards.

Despina Katsikakis

Executive Partner, Global Head Total Workplace

Cushman & Wakefield

Anna Moore is CEO and Co-Founder of Domna, a turnkey energy efficiency (retrofit) service for private and social landlords. Domna combine software and services to offer accurate advice and high-quality delivery, helping over 15,000 homes a year comply with EPC regulations while adding 20%+ to their property valuations.
Anna is a leader in retrofit and energy efficiency – she sits on the National Retrofit Hub’s Private Rental working group, sits on the City of London’s Skills for a Sustainable Skyline task force, and chairs the Urban Land Institute’s UK Innovation Council.

Anna Moore

CEO & Co-Founder

Domna

Chris joined Federated Hermes in 2010 having previously spent most of his career as a Fund Manager at Prudential. Under his leadership, the Real Estate business has executed landmark transactions, including Europe’s largest regeneration project at the 67 acres King’s Cross, Europe’s largest life science facility at Milton-Oxford, the Silverstone High Performance Technology Estate, and city centre major regenerations at Paradise Circus Birmingham, NOMA-Manchester, Wellington Place-Leeds and Central Milton Keynes.
Chris is Chairman of MEPC, BTPS Director on King’s Cross Board, and a key advocate for the role the built environment can play as a conduit for both enhancing productivity and delivering positive societal and environmental externalities. This is well evidenced from the major regeneration schemes undertaken under his leadership at Federated Hermes. He is a Fellow of the RICS, a Founding Board Member of INREV, and a past President of the British Property Federation. As a trustee of RREF, he collaborates with Henley Business School & University of Reading to urge closer collaboration between academia, industry, and the public sector.

Chris Taylor

CEO Real Estate & Head of Private Markets, Chairman MEPC

Federated Hermes Limited

Luke Graham is an entrepreneur and interdisciplinary research executive in built environment innovation. His prevailing research interest is the effect of macrotrends of the coming century on real estate, the world’s largest asset class.

Luke Graham

Head of Partner Outreach (Oxford Future of RE) & Head Prog. Instructor (RE Investment Online)

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Partner, Neuron

Daniel Tomaselli is Manager of Global Real Estate Research and Strategy at Principal Real Estate. He is responsible for implementing property research across Europe, including the analysis of traditional and alternative sectors, the formation of in-house views, and the validation of strategy for new product development projects.
He joined Principal in 2022 from Knight Frank, where he was a Senior Analyst in the Capital Market Research Team, providing insights on the economy and real estate capital flows. Prior to that, he was part of the advisory department at Grant Thornton. He has a strong interest in programming languages and alternative data, which he applied to assess the attractiveness of several real estate markets across the world. Daniel holds an MSc in International Management and a BSc in Economics.

Daniel Tomaselli

Manager of Global Real Estate Research and Strategy

Principal Asset Management

Ami is an investor, entrepreneur, board director and advisor. She is Co-Founder & Group President at Amro Partners, a pan-European, specialist real estate investor and asset manager focused on the Living Sector.
Ami’s expertise lies at the intersection of real estate investing, data science and sustainability. She leads on the implementation of Amro’s thematic approach to investing and managing ‘smart’ green, institutional grade residential assets in key growth markets in the UK and Europe.
Ami is a Board member at the British Property Federation (BPF), President of the Cambridge University Land Society (CULS), Independent Advisor on The Digital Planning Steering Board at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and is past Chair of UK Proptech Association.
Committed to serving the wider community, Ami is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and member of the London School of Economics’ Entrepreneurship & Venture Advisory Board.

Ami Kotecha

Co Founder & Group President

Amro Partners

Joe Short

Chief Scientist & Co-Founder

Demand Logic

Martin is Chief Economist and Director of the Office of Economic and Risk Analysis at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the regulator of audit firms, on secondment from his position as Professor of Finance, Economics, and Real Estate at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and Director of the Future of Real Estate Initiative.
At Oxford, Martin served as Head of the Finance, Accounting, Management, and Economics Area, as Academic Director of the Blockchain Strategy Programme, and co-director of the Open Banking & AI in Finance Programme. Outside Oxford, he serves as a Director of Global Corporate Governance Colloquia and as a consultant to UHNWI, family offices, and competition authorities, and as a director on various corporate boards.
He holds a graduate degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in mechanical engineering from the Universität Stuttgart (Germany) and a M.A. and PhD in Economics from Princeton University (USA).

Martin Schmalz

Professor of Finance, Economics, and Real Estate

Saïd Business School

Mr. Zavodov is a managing director and portfolio manager in the London office, where he leads the European real estate equity team. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2020, he was a managing director in the merchant banking division of Goldman Sachs, focusing on investments in real estate platforms, real estate assets, loans and loan portfolios secured by commercial and residential real estate, and structured equity. He began his career at The Blackstone Group. He has 14 years of investment experience and holds a Ph.D. in financial economics from the University of Cambridge.

Kirill Zavodov

Head of Real Estate Equity, EMEA

PIMCO

Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Tania is a Partner at Aevitas Property Partners, where she plays a key role in managing and overseeing a portfolio of over $5 billion in assets across Europe and India. Together with the Aevitas team, Tania contributes to providing access to long-term capital and leveraging market knowledge to foster the growth of six specialized real estate operating companies mostly active in the residential and light industrial sectors. Her earlier experience includes serving as a Senior Research Analyst at Kempen & Co, a leading Dutch investment bank, covering listed real estate companies and advising on equity market transactions. Prior to this, Tania started her professional career in equity research, at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs in London, focusing on the European listed telecoms, satellite and cable sectors. Tania's expertise is underpinned by a solid academic foundation, including a Master's degree in managerial and financial economics from HEC Paris, France.

Tania Valiente

Partner

Aevitas Property Partners

Paul joined Australian Super, working in the London office, in November 2020 and is responsible for Real Assets activity in the UK and Europe as well as being part of the global Real Assets leadership team. Since his arrival Paul has built out the Real Assets Team in London and overseen a range of investment activity including acquisitions of 50% interests Canada Water and M7 and the disposal on the CMK shopping centre. He also sits on the Boards of Kings Cross and Canada Water.
Paul has over 35 years’ experience in real assets investment, development and management. Previously he spent 13 years at The Crown Estate where he was the Chief Investment Officer and ran the strategy, investment, development and asset management teams dealing with €18.5 billion of assets. During his time there the teams he led were involved in around €11.6 billion of real estate transactions and completed over 2 million sq ft of new development. He also devised and led the creation of major partnerships with significant blue chip investors both in central London and around the UK. Prior to this Paul ran the real estate investment portfolio of the Church Commissioners.
Paul has also held various non-executive positions on unlisted vehicles and continues to contribute more widely to the real estate sector.

Paul Clark

Head of Real Assets Europe

AustralianSuper

Matteo is a Managing Director in the Private Markets Division of L&G Asset Management and Head of Digital Infrastructure Investments. He is a member of the senior leadership team of the Private Markets division.
Matteo joined Legal & General Group in 2015 and is currently a Board Director of L&G digital infrastructure and data centre investment portfolio companies Kao Data and Project Coleman. He has led digital infrastructure investments at L&G since 2018. He previously led operational real asset investments and spearheaded venture and alternatives investments for L&G’s principal balance sheet. He has been a Board Director of and led Audit and Remuneration Committee’s across several other L&G investment portfolio companies. Prior to L&G, Matteo spent 10 years as an Investment Director at global infrastructure-private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners, focusing on Operating Real Assets, including TMT, Infrastructure and Real Estate. Prior to Terra Firma, Matteo spent 4 years at Morgan Stanley.
Matteo is a Cambridge University Engineering graduate and CFA charter-holder. He is fluent in English, Italian, Japanese and basic French.

Matteo Colombo

Managing Director - Digital Infrastructure Investing Asset Management

Legal & General

Sebastian Dooley is the Senior Fund Manager focused on the European Data Centre sector and is based in London. He joined Principal in February 2017 and previously was responsible for managing a pan-European logistics separate account and was the Assistant Fund Manager for the European Core Property Strategy. Prior to joining Principal, Sebastian worked in the Corporate Finance department of Telereal Trillium as a Business Modeller where he analysed M&A opportunities and current investments. Sebastian has eight years of real estate experience, holds a Masters in Natural Sciences - Physics and Economics from Durham University, and is a CFA charterholder.

Seb Dooley, CFA

Senior Fund Manager

Principal Global Investors

Xi CHEN

Principal, Infrastructure Debt

QIC

Sabina Reeves is Global Chief Economist and Global Head of Real Assets Research for CBRE Global Investors with full operational responsibility for the firm’s strategy and research team and a specific role in selecting the economic scenarios and macro risk assessments that power the firm’s real estate forecasts. Mrs Reeves is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, Global Investment Committee, and European and Global Leadership Teams.
Previously, Mrs Reeves served as Head of Research for the firm’s EMEA region and the global quantitative team. Mrs Reeves joined the industry in 2001 and started working for CBRE Global Investors in 2008. Mrs Reeves was previously Chief Economist at IPD. Prior to IPD, she worked for Capital Economics, where she developed their UK residential and commercial property market analysis and forecasting service.
Mrs Reeves studied economics at Lincoln College, Oxford University and is a member of the Society of Business Economists, the Society of Property Researchers and the Investment Property Forum. She is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Sabina Reeves

Head of Insights and Intelligence, Chief Economist

CBRE Investment Management

Katherine Lang is a senior lawyer within the real estate group at global law firm Baker McKenzie. She focuses on technical legal and industry knowledge, specialising in cross-jurisdictional thought leadership, training and know-how, legal innovation, and complex transactional advice. Katherine is an editorial board member for legal journal Landlord & Tenant Review, a consulting editorial board member for LexisNexis Property, an affiliate member of the City of London Law Society Land Law Committee, and a member of the Better Buildings Partnership Green Lease Toolkit Legal Working Group. Katherine also works with the World Economic Forum and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development on topics such as the digital transformation of real estate and decarbonisation of the built environment. Katherine read Geography at St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford (1998-2001) and is Vice Chair of Oxford Real Estate Society.

Katherine Lang

Senior Knowledge Lawyer

Baker McKenzie