Investors’ Outreach Initiative: Real Assets Roundtable on “ESG as the New Age Mantra”

Sigrid 是亚太不动产协会（APREA）的首席执行官。她常驻新加坡，负责监督协会在亚太地区的战略方向、计划和运营。在她的领导下，亚太不动产协会重新定位为专注于房地产和基础设施的行业贸易集团。.

Sigrid 于 2019 年 1 月加入 APREA 的执行团队。.

在加入亚太房地产研究协会之前，她于2010年至2018年担任高纬环球（C&W）亚太区研究与咨询服务董事总经理，负责研究、思想领导、战略制定和客户管理。 在调往新加坡之前，她常驻华盛顿特区，领导高纬环球在美国中大西洋地区的研究小组，负责监督华盛顿特区、弗吉尼亚州、马里兰郊区、巴尔的摩和费城地区市场研究活动的方方面面。在加入 C&W 之前，Sigrid 曾担任全美房地产经纪人协会 (NAR) 的高级经济学家。在该职位上，她负责开发 NAR 的办公室、仓库、零售、多户住宅和国际研究项目。.

作为公认的全球经济、公共政策和房地产问题专家，Sigrid 经常在行业活动中发表演讲。 华尔街日报》、《金融时报》、彭博社、《纽约时报》和路透社等众多全球出版物也经常刊登她对商业和住宅房地产市场的评论。此外，她还在 CNBC、彭博社、CNN、国家公共广播电台和亚洲新闻频道等财经网络和广播电台上多次亮相。.

Sigrid 拥有康奈尔大学约翰逊管理研究生院工商管理硕士学位和宾夕法尼亚州立大学经济学硕士学位。她是多个民间团体的成员，包括新加坡莱佛士城扶轮社（Rotary Club of Raffles City），并在该社担任过多个领导职务，同时还是新加坡克罗恩氏症和结肠炎协会（Crohn's & Colitis Society of Singapore）执行委员会的成员。.

Piet’s experience bridges theory and practice. He is a widely respected teacher and researcher specialized in real estate markets, finance, and investment. He is also the co-founder of three companies (GPR, Finance Ideas, GRESB), and has had (advisory) board positions with organizations like EPRA, IPD, NAREIT, Redevco, Oppenheim Immobilien, among others. He has extensive experience as an international workshop and conference organizer, facilitator and speaker, both for industry and academic audiences.

Piet Eichholtz is Professor of Real Estate and Finance at Maastricht University and founding partner at Finance Ideas, where he is active in the Institutional Investor / ESG practice.

Piet´s research is on the edge between the built environment and financial markets. He studies real estate investment practices and performance, real estate and ESG, urban development and housing. He has published in journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, the American Economic Review, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Real Estate Economics, etc. He also publishes in newspapers and maganizes, and is often interviewed about the real estate markets. He is the co-author of the leading graduate real estate textbook: Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investment. Besides his research, he is also an award-winning educator.

Piet has also built up a solid reputation outside of academia, and has co-founded the real estate index provider GPR as well as GRESB, besides being a (advisory) board member of organizations such as IPD, the KLM pension fund, Loyalis, Redevco, Oppenheim Immobilien, the  Dutch construction workers’ pension fund, and Bouwfonds.

Piet has extensive experience in discussion and conference facilitation, having chaired the annual European IPD conference and the IPE Real Assets conference for more than 10 years, as well as numerous other conferences and discussion fora, both off- and online, ranging from a few participants to over 1000. He has also been active in the organization of academic conferences such as the international conference of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association in 1998, the European Financial Management conference in 2014, and a long-run annual workshop in partnership with the National University of Singapore, MIT, and the University of Cambridge. He has an extensive global network, and is well-known both in academic circles and in the real estate and financial industries.

Academic positions

Professor of Real Estate and Finance, Maastricht University  1998 - now

Chairperson of the Finance Department, Maastricht University  2005 - 2014

Professor of Real Estate, University of Amsterdam    1996 - 2005

Assistant and Associate Professor of Finance, Maastricht University   1994 - 1998

Selected industry positions

Founding partner Finance Ideas  2004 - now

Secretary of the Board, MeJudice (the Dutch online forum for economic discussion)  2014 - now

Non-executive director, IPD   2007 - 2012

Member, NAREIT research council  2007 - 2012

Academic fellow, Urban Land Institute  2002 - 2009

Member, ABP Strategic Investment Policy Group   1989 - 1992

Selected societal and university services

2013 - 2017  Chairperson, Maastricht University’s Studium Generale Committee

Studium Generale is a key knowledge transfer podium between Maastricht University and civil society

2013 - now   Member and Chairperson, Editorial Advisory Board Observant

Observant of  Maastricht University’s weekly newspaper, published both on- and offline  

2004   Property Advisor, UN Good Offices Mission, Cyprus

During the most recent serious peace effort on Cyprus, Piet was a co-author of the Annan-II plan, with chief responsibility for the property market solutions relating to reunification. 

1998  Founder of the Amsterdam University MSc program in Real Estate Finance

Priyaranjan is Managing Director and Head of Singapore for Alvarium Investments. He also serves on the firm's Global Policy, Private Markets, Global Macro and ESG committees. Priyaranjan is a highly respected global real estate professional with almost 25 years of advisory and investing experience across 40+ markets in 20+ countries involving transactions of $10BN+.  He has lived and worked in India, US and Singapore.

埃丝特是一位拥有二十多年可持续发展实践经验的人士。她于2008年发布了新加坡首份可持续发展报告，并于2017年发行了新加坡公司发行的首支绿色债券。她荣获联合国全球契约组织颁发的2018年“绿色基础设施和低碳经济可持续发展目标先锋奖”，并于2023年被路透社评为“25位引领气候变化的先锋女性”之一，同时入选2023年《时代》周刊首届“商界百位气候领袖”榜单。埃丝特目前担任多个国际组织的董事会成员或顾问，其中包括：

• 世界经济论坛自然友好型城市全球委员会
• 世界绿色建筑委员会企业顾问委员会主席
• 自然相关财务信息披露工作组
• 联合国房地产责任投资原则咨询委员会
• 联合国亚太经社会可持续商业网络执行委员会
• 全球报告倡议组织（GRI）监事会
• 城市土地学会 (ULI) 兰德尔·刘易斯中心房地产可持续发展咨询委员会和 ULI 亚太净零排放委员会
• 亚太房地产协会（APREA）董事会成员兼ESG委员会主席
• GRESB基金会董事会

她创立了 Women4Green 和 Youth4Climate 网络，旨在赋能妇女和青年，让他们成为气候行动和可持续发展的倡导者。.

As the Deputy General Manager of China Overseas Commercial Properties CO., Ltd. (COCP), Angel Tang leads the assets management and leasing effort of COCP’s 6 million-square-meter Grade A office buildings across China and overseas, with her 14 years’ experience in the field of commercial real estate. 

As a flagship of the global commercial office asset management brand, COOC(China Overseas Office Capital)was established under Tang’s leadership, it has catapulted COCP’s Office assets business segment into a new phase of comprehensive brand development.

COOC has become one of the largest single ownership office building development brands in China, developing and operating Grade A office buildings across nearly 30 cities.

In order to capture the new trend of work style, smart working brand-OFFICEZIP was established to create a new office ecosystem with a variety of supporting formats for life and business, forming an ecological value circle with complementary customers and products with COOC, Officloud and Officare.

竹内龙太先生负责仲量联行（JLL）在日本的资本市场平台，并与公司遍布全球的资本市场团队合作，促进日本商业地产市场的投资机会，并为日本国内资本所有者提供海外投资咨询服务。加入仲量联行之前，竹内先生曾任三菱商事旗下全球房地产投资机构Diamond Reality Management Incorporated的总裁兼首席执行官。在2021年至2023年期间，竹内先生在三菱商事担任此职，负责管理日本及其他全球市场超过1000亿美元（480亿美元）的私募房地产投资信托基金（REITs）和私募股权基金。竹内先生于1996年加入三菱商事，曾担任多个领导职务，包括城市发展集团执行管理及战略规划办公室主任、欧洲MC资产管理公司董事总经理兼首席执行官。他还曾担任瑞银集团与三菱商事合资成立的私募股权基金公司——瑞银-三菱商事普通合伙人有限公司（UBS-PREMF Limited）的联席首席执行官。.

Vincent van Bijleveld is director of the Global Real Estate Engagement Network, a collaboration of asset owners and managers that engages both listed and non-listed real estate funds, as the real estate sector is responsible for 40% of global carbon emissions and severely exposed to financial material physical and transition climate risks. Vincent is also managing consultant sustainable investing at Finance Ideas. With his team he has a consulting relation with about 30% of the top 50 Dutch pension funds and he works with these clients and other institutional investors on their sustainable and responsible investing policies, implementation, legislation and esg risk management. Previously Vincent has among others been a partner at one of the big global actuarial & investment consultants and worked for an institutional asset manager leading in sustainable investing.