Keynote Speaker

Richard is one of the world’s leading real estate economists. He joined CBRE in 2014 as Executive Director and Global Chief Economist. He is based in Boston and, as CBRE’s Global Head of Research, leads a team of 700 researchers worldwide, whilst travelling and speaking extensively on key real estate trends. He is Chairman of CBRE Econometric Advisers a specialist real estate forecasting unit. He has numerous academic and trade press publications to his credit including a highly regarded book called ‘Real Estate and Globalisation’ (Wiley Blackwell, Oxford), which deals with the impact on real estate markets of the rise of emerging markets such as China and Brazil.

Key Contributor

Andrew is EMEA Head of Research, based in London. Andrew is responsible for overseeing and shaping the real estate research capabilities of the European business. He manages a seven-strong team which provides strategic and asset-level research support to our direct and indirect investment teams. Andrew is actively involved in pitching for new business and presenting at client board meetings as well as maintains media relations through a combination of industry conferences and press interviews.