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Networking Reception and Leadership Dinner

3 February 19:45-22:30 Pavillion Cambon-Capucines

Networking Reception Leadership Dinner

Sponsored by Sponsored by

The venue is within walking distance of the Westin Hotel. Maps are available at the ULI registration desk.

ULI Europe Annual Conference

4 February 08:45 - 17:45 Westin Hotel

Winter Council Day - for Product Council members and invited guests only

3 February 10:00 - 16:00 Retail and Entertainment Council JLL

08:30 - 15:00 Hotel and Resort Development Council Peninsula Hotel

10:00 - 16:15 Urban Regeneration Council Ashurst

10:30 - 16:00 Office and Mixed-Use Council Clifford Chance

10:00 - 16:00 Sustainable Development Council Deloitte

Young Leaders’ Forum and Drinks Reception

3 February 09:45 - 19:30 Forum and Site Tour Westin Hotel and Saint-Quen

Leadership Events (are by invitation only)

3 February 08:00 - 10:00 ULI Europe National Council Chairs Meeting DLA Piper

16:00 - 17:00 Greenprint Meeting Deloitte

17:30 - 19:00 ULI Europe Steering Committee Meeting Tuileries, Westin Hotel

4 February 07:30 - 08:45 Policy and Practice Committee Meeting Castiglione, Weston Hotel

07:45 - 08:45 ULI Young Leaders Committee Meeting Tuileries 1, Westin Hotel

17:30 - 19:15 Global Product Council Leadership Meeting InterContinental LeGrand Hotel

4 February 07:30 - 08:45 ULI Netherlands Investors Breakfast Vendôme, Westin Hotel

(Registration required)

Conference Westin Hotel, 3 rue de Castiglione, 75001 Paris

Networking Reception and Leadership Dinner Pavillon Cambon-Capucines, 46 rue Cambon, 75001 Paris

National Council Chairs Meeting DLA Piper, 17 rue Scribe, 75009 Paris

Greenprint Meeting Deloitte, 185 Avenue Charles de Gaulle, 92524 Paris

Global Product Council Leadership Meeting InterContinental Paris, LeGrand Hotel, Debussy - 1st Floor, 2 rue Scribe, 75009 Paris

Winter Council Day Venue Addresses

Sustainable Development Council Kindly hosted by Deloitte, 185 Avenue Charles de Gaulle, 92524 Paris

Hotel and Resort Council Peninsula Hotel, 19 Avenue Kieber, 75116 Paris

Urban Regeneration Council Kindly hosted by Ashurst, Avocats au Barreau de Paris, 18, square Edouard VII 75009 Paris

Retail and Entertainment Council Kindly hosted by JLL, 40-42 La Boetie, 75008 Paris

Office and Mixed Use Council Kindly hosted by Clifford Chance, 9 Place Vendôme, 75001 Paris

Conference Programme Westin Hotel

3 February 2015 Networking Reception and Leadership Dinner I Pavillon Cambon Capucines

19:45 - 22:30 Dinner Speaker: Lyse Doucet, Chief International Correspondent, BBC Networking Reception Leadership Dinner sponsored by sponsored by

4 February 2015 Main Conference Day I The Westin Paris

08:45 Conference Welcome and Introductions Conference Chair: Pieter Hendrikse, CEO EMEA, CBRE Global Investors Conference Moderator: Greg Clark, Senior Fellow, ULI Europe

09:00 Keynote Session | Global Economic Outlook | Concorde Eric Chaney, Chief Economist, AXA Group and Head of Research, AXA Investment Managers

09:45 Panel Discussion | A View from Three Continents | Concorde On-the-ground view of the real estate markets in China, US and Russia and their economic and geopolitical climates. Russia: Sergey Riabokobylko, CEO and Managing Partner, Cushman & Wakefield Russia China: Henry Cheng, CEO, Chongbang Group; Chairman, ULI China and ULI Trustee USA: Lynn Thurber, Chairman, LaSalle Investment Management and Chairman, ULI

10:15 Coffee Break - Winter Garden Napoléon sponsored by sponsored by

Meet The Author | | Concorde William Ferguson, Chairman and CEO, Ferguson Partners, author of recently released ULI book ‘Leading for the Long Term - European Real Estate Executives on Leadership and Management’

10:45 Keynote Session | | Concorde Disruptive Forces #1 : Technology as Enabler and Disrupter of Real Estate How the emergence of sentient buildings, big data and smart living will impact the way we work, play and live. Inma Martinez, Business Ambassador, Catalyst Programme – UK Trade and Investment Peter Victor, Senior Managing Director and Head of International Desk, EMEA, Cushman & Wakefield

11:30 Panel Discussion | Concurrent Session I: The Future of Residential | Aiglon Moderator: Adam Challis, National Director, Head of Residential Research, JLL Panel: Marcus Cieleback, Group Head of Research and Executive Director, Patrizia Immobilien Pål Ahlsén, CFO, Akelius Ben Rogers, Director, Centre for London Dominique Alba, General Director, Apur (Paris Urban Planning Agency)

11.30 Panel Discussion | Concurrent Session II: A Sector in Transition? - Retail | Concorde Moderator: Chris Igwe, Head of Retail, France and Senior Director European Retail Leasing, EMEA, CBRE Panel: Jürgen Schwarze, Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, Metro Properties Hamid Moghadam, CEO, Prologis Josip Kardun, CEO, Atrium European Real Estate

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12.30 Networking Lunch | Imperial

14:00 Panel Discussion | Follow the Money? - Global Real Estate Capital | Concorde A discussion by top investors from Asia, Europe and the US on future investment flows. Moderator: Jon Zehner, Global Head of Client Capital Group, LaSalle Investment Management Panel: Jack Chandler, Chairman, BlackRock Realty Advisors Charles Graham, Principal, Europa Capital Partners Goodwin Gaw, Chairman, Managing Principal and Founder, Gaw Capital

14:45 Panel Discussion | Disruptive Forces #2: Extreme Weather | Concorde A discussion on the practical and investment implications of extreme weather on real estate. Moderator: Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas, Former Chairman, London & Partners Panel: Kate Brown, Group Director- Sustainability, Grosvenor Group Henk Ovink, Principal ‘Rebuild by Design’, Senior Advisor to Secretary Shaun Donovan, HUD / Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force Greg Lowe, Executive Director, Capital, Science & Policy Practice, Willis Group

15:45 Coffee Break - Winter Garden Napoléon sponsored by sponsored by

Meet The Author | | Napoléon Launch event of the new book ‘The Making of a World City - London 1991 to 2021’ by ULI Senior Fellow, Greg Clark

16:15 Panel Discussion | Concurrent I: Urban Health and Innovation | Concorde Healthy and innovative cities attract talent and investment. A global panel of leading cities will share best practice on how to achieve this successfully. Moderator: Greg Clark, Senior Fellow, ULI Europe Panel: Dr. Liu Thai Ker, Chairman, Centre for Liveable Cities, Singapore Juergen Bruns Berentelg, CEO, HafenCity, Hamburg

16:15 Panel Discussion | Concurrent II: WWW (who, where, why) of our future? | Aiglon An insight into Gen Y: a 20 year look ahead at the career and location choices of real estate young leaders. Moderator: Kari Pitkin, Managing Director, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Panel: Andrew Ghadimi, Head of Business Development, Ricardo Bofil Taller De Arquitectura Arun Govada, Director of Business Strategy, UDP International Haris Piplas, Research and Teaching Fellow, ETH Zurich Daniëlle Schoonbrood, Manager Real Estate Deal Advisory Services, PwC Netherlands Marton Balogh, Senior Consultant, JLL

17:15 Panel Discussion | Reflections of the Day: Fantasy vs. Reality? | Concorde Moderator: William Ferguson, Chairman and CEO, Ferguson Partners Panel: Christian Ulbrich, CEO, JLL EMEA Alexander Otto, CEO, ECE Projektmanagement Lisette van Doorn, CEO, ULI Europe

17:45 Conference Close

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Conference speakersPål Ahlsén

CEO, Akelius

Stockholm, Sweden

Ahlsén has spent 11 years at Akelius, the last

five as CEO. Previously, he was the company’s

country manager for Germany. Ahlsén holds

master’s degrees in economics and finance from Stockholm University.

Dominique Alba

Director General,

APUR (Paris Urban Planning Agency)

Paris, France

Alba became Director General of APUR

in 2012, after having served four years

as the agency’s vice director. Prior to her work at APUR, Alba was

Director General of the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, the information centre

on architecture and city planning in Paris. She has also served as

an advisor to Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë on urban renewal and

architecture and co-creator of the Roux-Alba architecture agency. As

an architect, she has worked on building renovation and city planning

operations in France, Europe and Africa.

Marton Balogh

Senior Consulatnt, JLL

Frankfurt, Germany

Balogh is part of the JLL Corporate Finance

team, advising clients on equity raising, fund

strategy, acquisitions and disposals. Previously,

he worked in the Transaction & Valuation Advisory Department, advising

both private equity companies and corporates on acquisition and due

diligence processes for real assets and loans in Continental Europe.

Prior to joining JLL, he worked in Hungary with Futureal Real Estate,

focusing on real estate developments in Central and Eastern Europe.

Balogh attended the Portfolio Management Programme at Cambridge

University, holds a Diploma in Real Estate Investment & Finance

from the University of Reading and received a Certificate in Business

Administration from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Additionally, he

holds an LLM from Pazmany Peter Catholic University and graduated

with a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Management from the

International Business School in Budapest.

Kate Brown

Group Sustainability Director, Grosvenor

London, UK

Brown is Group Sustainability Director for

Grosvenor. She is responsible for policy and

strategy guidance to Grosvenor internationally

on sustainability best practice. Brown has a particular interest in future

cities that has contributed to the Grosvenor Group ‘Living cities’ vision

which aims to help create attractive and sustainable cities which are

socially and economically robust. She recently co-authored a research

paper on ‘Resilient Cities’ ranking 50 global cities by environmental and

social resilience. Brown also serves on the Performance Committee for

the Greenprint benchmark and on the sustainability advisory board for

the US National Real Estate Investor magazine.

Jürgen Bruns-Berentelg

CEO, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH

Hamburg, Germany

Bruns-Berentelg is CEO of HafenCity Hamburg

GmbH, a public company owned by the City

State of Hamburg, in charge of development of

HafenCity and other areas. Prior to this, Bruns-Berentelg held several

management positions with international property companies, often

at an executive board level. He was involved in major projects such as

Berlin Central Station or the Sony Center in Potsdamer Platz, located in

Berlin. Bruns-Berentelg is a real estate economist and in 2014 he was

appointed professor for integrated urban development at the HafenCity

University Hamburg. He is a regular national and international speaker

on issues of innovative large scale urban developments and publishes

regularly on questions of urban development.

Adam Challis

Head of Residential Research, JLL

London, UK

Challis joined JLL as Head of UK Residential

Research in January 2013. His experience

spans more than a decade of property

research in the UK and Canada, working with both public and private

sector clients on residential development and investment opportunities.

Challis is the author of numerous reports on market-facing issues

and is a regular presenter and market commentator in UK and

international media.

Jack Chandler

Managing Director & Global Head of Real

Estate, BlackRock

New York, USA

Chandler is Chairman of BlackRock’s

Global Real Estate business with a focus

on the strategic development of the platform as well as investment

and client activities. He is also a member of the Real Estate Global

Executive Committee, the BlackRock Alternative Investment Executive

and Investment Committees, and the BlackRock Global Operating

Committee. BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager with over

$4 trillion under management.

Eric Chaney

Chief Economist, AXA Group,

Head of Research, AXA Investment Managers

Paris, France

Chaney has been Chief Economist for the AXA

Group since 2008. His mission is to provide

global macroeconomic scenarios and to assess the main economic

and financial risks, for the group at large and its main entities. He is

also Head of Research and member of the Executive Committee at

AXA Investment Managers. Previously, Chaney was Chief Economist

Europe at Morgan Stanley and head of the economic forecasting unit of

the French statistical office. Before that, he was responsible for global

economic forecasts and analysis at the French Treasury.

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Henry Cheng

CEO / Executive Director, Chongbang Group

Shanghai, China

Cheng is CEO & Executive Director of the

Shanghai-based Chongbang Group, a real

estate investment and development group

of companies co-founded in 2003 by Cheng and a consortium of

Hongkong and Singaporean investors. Since its inception, Chongbang

has focused exclusively on the development of retail-anchored

mixed-use projects in China, and has embarked on six projects of

this kind, four in Shanghai, one in the neighbouring Kunshan and one

in Hangzhou. Cheng has over 20 years of experience in real estate

development in China, primarily in Shanghai. Before co-founding

Chongbang Group, Cheng was Executive Director of Shui On Group and

Managing Director of Shui On Properties Limited.

Marcus Cieleback

Group Head of Research and Group Executive

Director,

PATRIZIA Immobilien

Ausburg, Germany

Dr. Cieleback’s focus includes the risk-

return based analysis and comparison of European and global real

estate markets and the development of models for forecasting the

commercial and residential markets to develop individual investment

strategies. Within these analyses special focus is given to the

institutional framework of the markets, especially in the residential

sector, as it provides the “rules of the game”. He is a frequent speaker

at international conferences and a published author in various

international journals. Previously Dr. Cieleback worked for Eurohypo

AG as Head of Research and MEAG, the asset management company

of Munich Re Group.

Greg Clark

Senior Fellow, ULI Europe

London, UK

Clark is an expert international peer reviewer

on urban and metropolitan development for

inter-governmental organisations. His portfolio

of wider leadership and advisory roles includes Global Institutions

(such as the OECD Forum), UK Board and Leadership Roles (such

as LEP and London Stansted Cambridge Consortium), Business and

Economic Advisory Roles (such as Heart of London Business Alliance

and Advisory Panel for Greater Manchester) and Thought Leadership

and Research Organisations (such as Centre for London and Centre for

Cities, LSE and City of London University). Clark is a regular advisor to

world cities and regions in five continents.

Lyse Doucet

Chief International Correspondent, BBC

London, UK

Doucet is BBC’s Chief International

Correspondent and an occasional Contributing

Editor. She presents on BBC World Service

radio and BBC World News television, and also reports for BBC Radio

4 and BBC News in the UK, including presenting and reporting for

Newsnight. She has been reporting for the BBC for nearly 30 years, with

posts in Abidjan, Kabul, Islamabad, Tehran, Amman and Jerusalem.

William Ferguson

Chairman and CEO, Ferguson Partners Ltd.

Chicago, USA;

Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, FPL Advisory

Group

Ferguson serves as Chairman and CEO of

Ferguson Partners Ltd. and as the Co-Chairman and Co-CEO of FPL

Advisory Group. Ferguson conducts senior management recruiting

assignments, with a specialisation in president/chief executive officer

searches and recruiting assignments for Boards of Trustees/Directors.

He also conducts CEO succession planning assignments and facilitates

public company Board and senior management assessments. Before

founding Ferguson Partners Ltd, Ferguson was a Managing Director

in the Chicago office of Russell Reynolds Associates, where he co-

managed the firm’s national real estate practice.

Goodwin Gaw

Founder and Managing Principal

Gaw Capital Partners

Hong Kong, China

Gaw is the Founder and Managing Principal of

Gaw Capital Partners, a Hong Kong based real

estate private equity fund management company that focuses on global

real estate markets. Gaw Capital Partners currently manages four real

estate funds targeting the Greater China and Asia Pacific region, and

provides services for separate account and fund management in the

US and UK markets. It has raised equity in excess of USD$4.0 billion

since 2005 and currently commands assets of USD$ 8.6 billion under

management. Gaw has over 20 years of real estate investment and

management experience, having served as Vice Chairman of Pioneer

Global Group, Founder and Managing Principal of Downtown Properties.

Andrew Ghadimi

Head of Business Development

Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

Berlin, Germany

Ghadimi has been the Head of Business

Development for Ricardo Bofill Taller de

Arquitectura (RBTA) since 2012. He founded and is Managing Director

of Plane-Site, a global marketing, branding and content development

agency, specialising in the built environment. Ghadimi attended

New York University and Colombia University, studying economics,

architecture and urban planning and holds an MBA from IESE University

in Barcelona, Spain. His previous work experience is in real estate

development, finance and asset management in the United States.

Currently, he serves as Vice-Chair of Strategy for the Urban Land

Institute (ULI) European Young Leaders.

Arun Govada

Director of Business Strategy

UDP International

Hong Kong, China

Govada is the Director of Business Strategy at

UDP International - a multi-function, global,

strategic planning and urban design boutique firm based out of Hong

Kong, with offices in Hyderabad, India and San Francisco, USA. Govada

leads market insight analysis across interest markets around the globe

to develop new offerings and new markets for the firm. Previously,

Govada worked with IBM in New York and in Shanghai with global

project management roles that were focused on increasing supply chain

efficiency and employee productivity. Govada holds a Bachelor’s Degree

with honours from the Boston University School of Management and is on

the ULI Young Leaders Group Executive Committee in Hong Kong and is

the Co-Chair for Asia Pacific of the ULI Global Young Leader Network.

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Charles Graham

Principal and Founder, Europa Capital LLP

London, UK

Prior to establishing the European fund

manager, BPFM, with Sir John Beckwith,

Richard Ellis and AIG in 1994, Graham spent

14 years in North America working in development, first with the

Canadian group Knowlton Realty Ltd and then, as CEO of London &

Edinburgh Trust PLC’s US subsidiary, undertaking developments across

the US. In 1999, BPFM reformed as the independently owned Europa

Capital, which has sponsored seven European real estate funds to

date, investing €8 billion in more than 80 investments in 18 countries.

Graham is a long-standing member of both ULI and the Pension Real

Estate Association. He was a Founder of the Reading Real Estate

Foundation, where he served as Trustee until 2014.

Pieter Hendrikse

Chief Executive EMEA, CBRE Global Investors

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Hendrikse is CEO EMEA of CBRE Global

Investors and is responsible for all real-

estate investment management activities in

the regions. This currently comprises €26.1 billion of assets under

management in 17 countries managed by more than a team of

600 people. He is Chairman of the company’s European Executive

Committee, and a member of the Global Executive Committee, the

Global Leadership Team and the Global Investment Committee.

Chris Igwe

Head of Retail, France and Senior Director

European Retail Leasing EMEA, CBRE

Paris, France

Igwe is a leading authority on global retail. In

2007 he joined CBRE as Head of Retail France.

Based in Paris, Igwe’s retail clients have included many well-known

brands: Calvin Klein, Costco, Disney, Esprit, Farrow & Ball, Hard Rock

Café, Michael Kors, Nike, TUMI. After heading European Real Estate for

Foot Locker and Gap, Igwe joined ICSC as European Managing Director.

He then founded Chris Igwe International, successfully growing brands

across Europe. Igwe is an international speaker and has been a Jury

Member for international organizations. A Chartered Civil Engineer

and member of ICSC and ULI, Igwe is a co-founder of Retailp.com, the

leading European retail information website. He is a Mapic Steering

Committee Member and holds a BSc in Civil Engineering and an MSc in

Geotechnical Engineering.

Josip Kardun

CEO, Atrium European Real Estate

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Kardun became the CEO of Atrium European

Real Estate in November 2014. Prior to this,

he served as it’s Deputy CEO and the Group

Chief Operating Officer. Kardun joined Atrium from European retail

property specialists ECE Projektmanagement (ECE), where he was the

Chief Investment Officer and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions and

Transaction Management Group. He worked at ECE for seven years.

Prior to this, Kardun was General Manager at Sierra Management

Germany, part of Sonae Sierra, with responsibility for leasing activities

and centre management.

Liu Thai Ker

Chairman, Centre for Liveable Cities

Singapore

Dr Liu is an architect-planner. He is a member

of several governmental bodies in Singapore,

and planning advisor to over 30 cities in China.

As the CEO of the Singapore Housing & Development Board, 1969-

1989, Dr Liu saw the completion of over half a million dwelling units.

In 1989, he became the CEO & Chief Planner of Urban Redevelopment

Authority for which he spearheaded the major revision of the Singapore

Concept Plan 1991. Dr. Liu is a recipient of several awards including

the Gold Medal of the Singapore Institute of Architects in 2001 and

the Medal of the City of Paris, France in 2001. He is the Founding

Chairman of Centre for Liveable Cities.

Greg Lowe

Executive Director, Capital, Science & Policy

Practice, Willis Group

London UK

Lowe is an Executive Director in the Capital,

Science, and Policy Practice at Willis Group

and heads Willis Group’s sustainability programme globally. As he

manages and reduces Willis’ own environmental impacts, he is also

focused on the broader sustainability issues that affect Willis, its

clients, and the wider insurance industry. He is experienced in the risk

management of renewable energy, supply chains, and cities, linking

these to the climate change adaptation agenda. He also works to bridge

the worlds of policy and capital in the context of environmental issues.

Prior to working at Willis, Lowe was the Head of Sustainability at Aon.

He has also worked at UBS Investment Bank and the US Senate.

Inma Martinez

Business Ambassador, Catalyst Programme -

UK Trade and Investment

London UK

Martinez is an entrepreneur, an angel investor

in start-ups and a spokesperson /ambassador

for the UK Trade & Industry Business Catalyst programme for digital

economy, entrepreneurship and knowledge transfer. Fortune and TIME

have described her as one of Europe’s top talents in social engagement

through technology and Red Herring ranked her among the top 40

women in technology. Martinez previously worked in the financial

industries, the telecoms sector and she has been a corporate advisor to

private, public and government institutions. As a digital media advisor,

Martinez has created strategy for media, music, film & TV and fashion

retail brands worldwide.

Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas DBE

Former Chairman, London & Partners

London UK

Mayhew Jonas was the founding Chairman of

London & Partners and is Special Adviser to

the US property company, Tishman Speyer. A

City lawyer, she was the Leader of the City of London Corporation for

6 years and was on the main board of Merrill Lynch and the Wealth

Management Advisory Committee at Barclays Private Bank. She was

deputy Chairman of the London Development Agency and was on the

board of London First and London First Centre. She has served on and

chaired numerous arts and educational institutions and currently chairs

the British Dutch Dialogues and the London New York Dialogues.

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Hamid Moghadam

Chairman and CEO, Prologis

San Francisco, USA

Moghadam is chairman of the board of

directors and CEO of Prologis. In 1983,

Moghadam co-founded the company’s

predecessor, AMB Property Corporation, and led the company

through its IPO in 1997 and merger with Prologis in 2011. Moghadam

is a trustee of Urban Land Institute and a member of the executive

committee of its Board. In the past, he served as chairman of the

NAREIT and the REITPAC. He is also a trustee of Stanford University

and served previously as chairman of Stanford Management Company.

Alexander Otto

CEO, ECE Projektmanagement

Hamburg, Germany

Otto joined ECE as a development manager

in 1994 and was appointed Chief Executive

Officer of ECE in 2000. ECE is Europe’s

leading shopping center company and is owned by the Otto family.

Under his leadership, ECE set its main focus on the expansion from

Germany to other European markets and meanwhile operates its own

projects in 16 countries with €26 billion in assets under management.

In addition, ECE has become a leading developer and service provider

in the field of office and special-purpose properties.

Henk Ovink

Senior Advisor to Shaun Donovan, HUD /

Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force

The Hague, Netherlands

Ovink is senior advisor for Secretary Shaun

Donovan of Housing and Urban Development

(HUD), Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. Ovink is responsible for

long-term planning, design, and innovation strategy; the regional design

competition ‘Rebuild by Design;’ the associated planning conference;

and the follow-up national program on ‘Regional Resilience by Design.’

Before joining the Task Force, Ovink was both Director General Spatial

Planning and Water Affairs and Director National Spatial Planning for

the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment in the Netherlands.

Haris Piplas

Research and Teaching Fellow, ETH Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

After graduating at the top of his class from

the University in Sarajevo, Piplas received his

postgraduate degree in Urban Design at the

Technical University of Berlin. Since 2011, he is affiliated to the ETH

Zurich and its Urban-Think Tank Chair of Architecture and Urban Design

where he works in teaching and coordinates a research project on urban

transformations in Central-Eastern Europe. He has published articles

and contributed to various publications, and was editor of the Journal of

the European Federation for Landscape Architecture. Piplas serves on

Scientific Committee at the UN SCBD Network “MediverCities” and the

Advisory Board for the Built Environment Symposium at the European

Forum Alpbach. He is active in the ULI Germany Young Leaders

Committee, the “Building Healthy Places” initiative and the Executive

Committee of ULI Switzerland.

Kari Pitkin

Head of Real Estate, Gaming & Lodging,

EMEA,

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

London, UK

Pitkin is a Managing Director with Bank

of America Merrill Lynch. She has spent the last fourteen years in

Europe, and prior to London she resided in Sydney and New York,

always focussed on Real Estate Investment Banking. Pitkin covers the

mainland European markets as well as Russia, Turkey and South Africa.

Throughout her career Pitkin has been involved in over $40 billion of

real estate transactions on a global basis, including the US, Australia,

Singapore and Europe. Pitkin is a graduate of the University of Virginia

and received an MBA, with honours, from the Darden Graduate School

of Management.

Sergey Riabokobylko

CEO / Managing Partner Russia, Cushman &

Wakefield

Moscow, Russia

Riabokobylko has over twenty years of

experience in the real estate industry, including

consultancy, brokerage, corporate strategy, advisory, investment sales

and marketing. Since 2011 he has also served as Resident Partner

for Cushman & Wakefield in Switzerland. He is a member of YPO

and serves on the boards of PSN (PromSvyazNedvizhimost), Open

Investments (OPIN), American Chamber of Commerce in Russia and

United Way Russia.

Ben Rogers

Director, Centre for London

London, UK

Rogers is a writer and policy thinker, with a

particular focus on cities, citizenship, social

capital, public service reform, and the built

environment. Prior to founding Centre for London, Rogers was an

Associate Director of IPPR from 2003-2007 and has subsequently led

strategy teams in Haringey Council, DCLG and The Prime Minister’s

Strategy Unit, where he was responsible for producing the cross

government strategy World Class Places. Rogers has written several

acclaimed books on philosophy and history, published in the UK and the

US, and is an experienced journalist and broadcaster. He is a visiting

fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and was a member of the Mayor’s

London Finance Commission chaired by Tony Travers.

Daniëlle Schoonbrood

Managing Director, Real Estate Deal Advisory

Team, PwC

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Schoonbrood has more than 8 years of real

estate experience in both the real estate

industry and in Real Estate Deal Advisory. At PwC, Schoonbrood focuses

on Real Estate Deal advice on large, complex real estate transactions.

This includes advice on the acquisition, disposition and financing of

large real estate (loan) portfolios; M&A advice with a focus on real

estate companies; real estate investment strategy advice; and business

restructuring and independent business reviews of real estate funds.

Before PwC, Schoonbrood worked for 3 years at Unibail-Rodamco as

a senior manager and at JLL as Appraiser and Consultant. She holds

an International Executive MBA from Kellogg School of Management

Chicago, Nyenrode Business Universiteit and University of Stellenbosch

South Africa, a Master course in Real Estate Investment Analysis of the

Amsterdam School of Real Estate and a Master in Real Estate Law from

Maastricht University.

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Juergen Schwarze

Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer,

METRO Properties

Düsseldorf, Germany

Schwarze joined METRO Group in September

2008 as Senior Vice President. After three

years as Head of Group Audit and Advisory, he became Managing

Director and CEO of METRO United Kingdom, where he prepared and

managed the implementation of a comprehensive restructuring plan

as well as the sale of the company after completed restructuring. In

January 2013, he was named Managing Director and CFO of METRO

Properties and is responsible for finance, transactions as well as investor

relations. Prior to METRO Group, he worked as head of Strategic

Planning at Haniel Group, a major stakeholder of METRO. Previously,

he worked as a transaction, consultancy and restructuring specialist for

PwC and Ernst & Young.

Lynn Thurber

Chairman, LaSalle Investment Management

and Chairman, ULI

Chicago, USA

As Chairman of LaSalle Investment

Management, Thurber chairs LaSalle’s Global

Sustainability Committee and Global Risk Management Committee. She

is Chairman of the Jones Lang LaSalle Income Property Trust, a SEC

registered non-traded REIT. Thurber was CEO of LaSalle Investment

Management from 2000 to 2006. She is a member of the Board of

Duke Realty Corporation (NYSE:DRE), a U.S. publicly traded REIT and

a member of the Board of Investa Property Group, an Australian based

real estate owner, developer and fund manager. Thurber is currently a

Trustee and Chairman of ULI.

Christian Ulbrich FRICS

Member of Global Executive Board and CEO

EMEA, JLL

London, UK

In April 2005, Ulbrich was appointed CEO of

JLL’s German business and a member of the

EMEA Management Board. In January 2009, he took on the role of CEO

for the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and became a

member of the Global Executive Board of Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. Since

2009, Ulbrich has been a member of the Executive Committee of ZIA

e.V. (The German Property Federation), Berlin. In August 2014 he was

appointed Member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Annington

Immobilien SE.

Lisette Van Doorn

CEO, ULI Europe

London, UK

Van Doorn became the CEO of ULI Europe at

the start of 2015. She has almost 20 years’

experience across the European real estate

and institutional markets. From 2005 to 2009 she was the founding

CEO of INREV, the association for investors in non-listed real estate

funds. Under her management INREV became the leading industry

association for investors and fund managers in Europe with more than

300 global members. In December 2009, Van Doorn re-joined ING

Real Estate Investment Management as Country Manager Italy and

Fund Manager of two non-listed retail funds with a total value of €1.3

bn. She holds a degree in Business Economics from the University of

Maastricht and a post-graduate Financial Analyst degree.

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Peter Victor

Senior Managing Director / Head of

International Desk EMEA, Cushman &

Wakefield

London, UK

Victor has 25 years experience in the

commercial real estate business, most recently as Senior Managing

Director at Cushman & Wakefield in London where he runs their

International Desk for EMEA, providing cross-border transaction and

relationship management for some of the firm’s largest occupier,

landlord and investor clients. Prior to arriving in London in 2007,

Victor was one of the firm’s leading brokers in San Francisco where he

represented a wide range of landlord and occupier clients. During this

period, he was involved in transactions with many small, high-growth

companies, as well as the very largest technology giants such as

Microsoft and Salesforce. Previously, Victor was Boston Properties’ Vice

President and Regional Leasing Director for the San Francisco Bay Area

where he was in charge of leasing and marketing the 350,000 square

meter Embarcadero Center, the largest mixed use development in the

Western United States.

Jon Zehner

Global Head of Client Capital Group, LaSalle

Investment Management

London, UK

Zehner is Global Head of the Client Capital

Group at LaSalle and is a member of LaSalle’s

Global Management Committee. He is responsible for leading LaSalle’s

global activities relating to capital raising, new product development,

merchant banking and large-scale, cross-border strategic investments.

He is a member of the European Debt and Special Situations Investment

Committee. Zehner’s previous posts include Senior Director at AREA

Property Partners and JP Morgan Chase, where he held a number of

senior positions over a 28 year period including Global Head of Real

Estate Investment Banking and Head of sub-Saharan Africa.

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ECE – a strong partner

ECE develops, plans, builds, leases out, and manages

shopping centres since 1965 and is active in 16

countries. The company is the European market leader

with 196 managed shopping centres (41 of which are

managed by MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement

GmbH & Co. KG).

In the ECE centres, approximately 19,500 retail tenants

generate around €22 billion in annual sales on an

overall sales area of 6,5 million m². Numerous shopping

centres are currently planned or built throughout Europe,

including “K in Lautern” in Kaiserslautern, “Holsten-

Galerie” in Neumünster and “Aquis Plaza” in Aachen.

ECE’s Office, Traffic and Industries division also realises

other commercial properties.

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Linklaters

As a leading global law firm, Linklaters’ real estate

expertise combines an outstanding track record and deep

client relationships spanning across the globe, in order to

provide the highest quality legal services.

The Linklaters real estate team consists of global

specialists in investment, development, M&A, finance,

tax, funds, environment, planning and disputes. Our

lawyers are also renowned for their cutting-edge

expertise in structured and securitised cross-border real

estate finance transactions.

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