APREA China Real Assets Leaders’ Dialogue Luncheon Event

Chen has overall responsibility for international business group and cross-border investment activities in COS-Capital. Since co-founding COS Capital, he has led the group in deploying nearly USD 400mn equity capital into US real estate, ranging from core-plus to value-add to opportunistic projects. From 2007 to 2013, Mr. Chen was Managing Director & Head of Global Real Estate (GRE) - Greater China at UBS Global Asset Management. He was responsible for managing and developing the GRE business as well as the strategic initiatives in the region. He was a member of the Asia Pacific Management Committee of UBS Global Asset Management. He spearheaded the establishment of the UBS/Gemdale JV. While serving as Co-CEO for the JV, he successfully led the launch of its first China Real Estate Fund and served as the principal manager for the fund. Joining UBS in 2003 as the Global Head of Research & Strategy, Mr. Chen was responsible for developing investment strategies and conducting portfolio analysis, as well as providing economic, capital market and real estate market analysis in both private and public markets. He served on various global, regional and country investment committees and boards. Further back, Mr. Chen was Principal - Investment Strategies Group at Lend Lease Real Estate Investments for three years. Earlier, he held various investment positions at Boston Financial, SSR Realty Advisors and MetLife Realty Group. He sits on the Board of Asia Pacific Real Estate Association and the Advisory Board of the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress. He was a board member of American Real Estate Society from 2004 to 2009 and a member of the Advisory Board of Real Estate Research Institute from 2003 to 2008. And in 2004-2009, he was a member of the Editorial Boards for Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management and Journal of Real Estate Literature. He holds a PhD from MIT, MS from UBC, and a bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University.

陈李健Lijian Chen 高级执行总裁

负责领导和管理东方藏山的国际和跨境投资业务。自东方藏山成立以来，陈李健先生带领团队在美国完成了约4亿美元的投资，所投项目涵盖了类核心型，增值型和机会型。陈李健先生曾于2007年至2013年担任瑞银（UBS）环球资产管理大中华区地产投资主管，董事总经理。自2008年起他领导团队成功启动瑞银在中国的地产投资业务，完成了第一支美元中国地产基金的募集(基金规模2.07亿美元)，首创国际知名资产管理公司与国内品牌开发商的合作模式，并取得了优异的投资回报。陈李健先生2003年加入瑞银集团，担任全球研究与战略投资主管，负责投资策略的开发，投资组合分析的制定与实施，以及为私募和公募市场提供有关经济政策、资本市场和房地产市场等方面的研究工作。他曾在多个全球性、区域性和国家级的投资委员会和董事会任职。此前，他在澳洲联盛房地产投资管理公司投资策略部门担任主管达三年。早期，他还在波士顿金融公司和SSR Realty Advisors（原美国大都会人寿保险）的投资业务部门担任多种职位。陈李健先生曾获得美国麻省理工学院博士学位、加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学硕士学位和清华大学建筑学学士学位。

Covid-19 has threatened the survival of the market. However, despite the prevailing uncertainties, next year the economic policies, market as a whole and of course investors will become more stable and adaptive. Overall, 2021 will be a year of recovery and advancement. China will continue to play a pivotal role in pushing the global economy forward. With technology gradually taking precedence in China and overseas, the seamless connection between online and offline will enable the real estate industry to blossom. Seeing that real estate is a derived demand, improvements in consumer affordability will trigger a domino-effect on the property industry which helps to accelerate the recovery. The liberalization of household registration restrictions and the integration of core metropolitan areas in Fourteenth Five-Year Plan from the Chinese government will promote breakthroughs in business model innovation and expansion in the future. Resulting in a competitive business environment that is far more interesting and aggressive.

Appointed as Director in 2016 and re-designated as Executive Director in February 2019, Mr. Shen has been the co-CEO of our Group since June 2011 and was also a co-founder of e-Shang. He is responsible for overseeing ESR’s overall operations and business development, leading regional growth strategies, and expanding ESR’s asset and fund management platforms. Mr. Shen has over 20 years of industrial real estate experience in the PRC. Prior to co-founding our group, he was previously Senior Vice President at GLP Investment Management (China) Co. Ltd. (formerly Prologis China); and the deputy director in DTZ Debenham Tie Leung International Property Advisers. He graduated from the Shanghai Jiaotong University in the PRC and obtained a bachelor’s degree in technical economics. Mr. Shen also holds an MBA from Donghua University in the PRC.

Having worked in China, the U.S., Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia, Mr. Chen has vast and diverse experiences in real estate investment and financing, REITs, PERE fund management and asset management, real estate development, planning & design, and international business operations.

Mr. Chen is the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of F.O.G. Capital & Asset Management Corp. (Fields of Gold Corp. - a real estate focused investment & asset management firm headquartered in Shanghai, China, and a Harvard China Fund partner for over 10 years) and the independent director of Yuexiu REITs (the World's first publicly listed REITs in Hong Kong in 2005 investing mainly in mainland properties). He also has been serving as the Development Head of China for a Top-10 Globally ranked real estate investment fund and as senior executive of one of the largest listed blue-chip real estate development groups in Hong Kong. He has also worked as senior architect in an international architectural firm in Boston, MA. USA.

Mr. Chen is a visiting professor at one of the top business schools in China- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). He was also a mentor for China Ren Min University’s MBA program. He teaches Real Estate and Capital Market related courses in Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tongji University. While living in the US, Mr. Chen was a Guest Lecturer at the BAC (Boston Architecture Center), where he taught architectural design and planning studios.