Louis-Simon Ferland is a partner in TPG’s Real Estate Group based in London. Prior to joining TPG in 2019, Mr. Ferland was a managing director at Blackstone where he has been actively involved in a variety of European real estate acquisitions, disposals and financings, with a total investment value of more than €20 billion. Mr. Ferland has experience in analysing all major real estate asset classes and has been involved in a number of Blackstone’s investments in Europe, including Logicor, GE’s European portfolio and Multi Corporation. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Ferland spent three years in Merrill Lynch’s real estate private equity group focused on pan-European investments and three years as a lawyer in New York City. Mr. Ferland received a dual degree in Common and Civil Law from McGill University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

Jean-Luc Charles was Deputy Director General of the Conseil général de l'Essonne, in charge of regional planning and development (2001-2005), before taking over the management of Jean-Marc AYRAULT's firm in Nantes Métropole and the City of Nantes (2005-2010). Currently, he is General Manager of the Western Atlantic Metropolitan Planning Corporation (Samoa). SAMOA is a local public company whose main shareholder is Nantes Metropole. It employs 40 people and has an annual turnover of €20 million. Samoa has a dual mission: - The management of the Ile de Nantes Urban Project, with the development of more than 300 hectares located in the heart of the Nantes urban area. Initiated in 2000, this project entered its second phase, with the release of 90 ha in the southwest of the island. The reception of the University Hospital and a university health centre, the programming of 2 tramway lines, the construction of a large metropolitan park and the new Quartier République will strengthen the metropolitan dimension of this territory. In accordance with the orientations adopted by Nantes Métropole, the aim is to design and build a city for all, inventive, frugal and unique; a mixed city that combines the small and the large, the everyday and the metropolitan; - The development of creative and cultural sectors in metropolitan France and on the Isle of Creation; with the ambition of bringing together on an urban campus 4,500 students, a hundred researchers and more than 3,000 jobs. A real laboratory, the Ile de Nantes makes it possible to build bridges between artists, researchers, students and young creative talent. With an economic agency, the Creative Factory, Samoa hosts more than 200 companies, supports 70 project leaders and runs 3 accelerators.

Stephen Barrett is a Partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and has over 25 years of experience with the practice. He currently leads RSHP's French and French speaking teams and projects. He was project architect on the Tribunal de Grand Instance de Bordeaux, the Terminal T4 of Barajas Airport in Madrid, the Palmas Altas eco-campus in Seville, the control tower of Heathrow Airport in London. More recently, he had led teams in delivering the new Terminal 1 of Lyon-Saint Exupéry airport and more recently the East Wing extension of Geneva Airport. In addition to more than a dozen airport projects, Stephen has led the multidisciplinary teams of urban projects Grand Pari(s) (2008 - 2012), Bercy Charenton (2009 - ), Gare de Lyon Daumesnil (2014 - ), the “Routes du Futur du Grand Paris” (the Future of Roads in Greater Paris) as well as the winning proposal for Maine-Montparnasse in Paris. He is also responsible for the practice’s sustainability group and recently conducted the carbon audit of the company's activities.

Simon Kuper (born in Kampala, Uganda in 1969) was educated at Oxford University and Harvard. He has been working for the Financial Times since 1994, and now writes a general column for the newspaper. He is British but lives with his wife and three children in Paris. He is the author of several books including Football Against the Enemy (winner of the William Hill prize for Sports Book of the Year 1994), Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe During the Second World War (2003), and – as co-author with Stefan Szymanski - Soccernomics (2009). He also writes for magazines in Japan, The Netherlands, Switzerland and other countries. He has won several awards for his journalism, ranging from the Manuel Vazquez Montalban prize for sportswriting in 2008 (sponsored by FC Barcelona) to the British Society of Magazine Editors’ prize for Columnist of the Year in 2016.

Isabelle Scemama is Chief Executive Officer of AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets (“AXA IM - Real Assets”) and chairs the Management Board. Her responsibilities include the definition of AXA IM - Real Assets’ strategy and its day-to-day management. Isabelle joined AXA IM - Real Assets in 2001 to head real estate fund structuring and financing. In 2005, she launched the CRE Loans platform which currently manages mandates on behalf of more than 40 institutions from 10 different jurisdictions. In 2013, she was appointed to launch the Infrastructure lending platform, an initiative managed on behalf of the AXA Group that aims to invest up to €10 billion across debt and equity. Most recently, Isabelle was responsible for the Funds Group. Isabelle started her career in 1989 at Paribas in the large cap corporate financing department. In 1995, she joined the real estate financing department where she was responsible for the financing of investors. She has over 30 years of experience in financing including 24 years in real estate finance. Isabelle graduated from IEP Paris (Sciences Po) with a degree in Political Science in 1989.

Olivier Estève is a graduate of the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics (ESTP). Following a 12-year career within the Bouygues Group (1990-2001), where he had been Director of Development for its subsidiary, SCREG Bâtiment, he joined Covivio in September 2002. After having been Real Estate Director in charge of Major Commercial Real Estate Development Projects, he now oversees all of the office development activities of Covivio, external partnerships and the coworking activity. Olivier Estève is Deputy CEO of Covivio since 2011.

Nathalie Palladitcheff is responsible for developing and ensuring the execution of the company’s global strategy and to supervise the alignment of its investment and corporate activities. She leads the strategic planning process, ensures that portfolio development be achieved in an optimal and balanced way according to asset allocation and the risk-return ratio. She is also responsible for specialized research activities and she guides the business units concerning the identification of investment opportunities in various sectors, geographies and products. Ms. Palladitcheff also manages all activities related to Finance in the Company: Corporate Accounting, Operational Accounting, Treasury, Financing, Property Valuation and Taxation. She leads the Human Resources team, the Legal Affairs team and Information Technologies team, and is responsible for the implementation of the best practices and technological trends to meet business needs and maintain Ivanhoe Cambridge’s leadership in the field. Nathalie Palladitcheff began her career with Coopers & Lybrand Audit (1991 to 1997), before joining Banque Française commerciale de l’Océan Indien (1997 to 2000) as Director of Financial Affairs and Management Audits. She then served as Deputy Managing Director of Société Foncière Lyonnaise de Paris (2000). In 2006 and 2007, she was Managing Director of Dolmea Real Estate, which is principally engaged in the acquisition, management and rental of residential properties in the Ile-de-France region. Ms. Palladitcheff joined Icade in 2007 as a member of the Executive Committee in charge of Finance, Legal Affairs and Information Technology. In 2010, she also assumed responsibility for the Property Services division (Facility, Property Management and Council). In February 2015, she was appointed Acting CEO of Icade. She joined Ivanhoé Cambridge, in August 2015, as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mrs. Palladitcheff was a Director of various Companies such as Silic, Qualium Investments, Crédit agricole CIB and Gecina, and presently sits on the Board of Directors of SPIE, the CHU Sainte-Justine Foundation, Otéra Capital as well as REALPAC. Ms. Palladitcheff is a graduate of École Supérieure de Commerce de Dijon (ESC Dijon) and holds a Diplôme d’Études Supérieures Comptables et Financières (DESCF) and a Diplôme d’Études Financières et Comptables (DECF). In 2012, she received France’s insignia of Chevalier of the Ordre national du mérite (Knight of the National Order of Merit).

Acquired by Colliers International in October, Gerard Olivier moved from CBRE France to assist Colliers in transforming their model and strategy to better connect with a global platform.

Jurgen joined the SIGNA Group Executive Board on 1 October 2017. He was previously a member of the management board of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba), where he was responsible for real estate, debt capital markets and financial institutions. Mr Fenk has extensive experience of the banking, capital market and property sectors. In his position at SIGNA he will primarily focus on banking, capital markets and capital sourcing for the Group. He will also be responsible for establishing the SIGNA Group’s new innovation & prop tech unit. SIGNA is a privately managed, entrepreneurial retail and real estate group. The Group comprises two core businesses: SIGNA Real Estate and SIGNA Retail. The gross asset value amounts to over EUR 13 billion, and the development volume accounts of some EUR 8 billion. Juergen is the past Chairman of ULI Germany and the Chairman of ULI Europe. He is also Member of the Global Board of ULI

Since 1990, Eric Costa has held various positions in the real estate industry, promotion, consulting, financial engineering, investment and is since 2007 Real Estate Director of Galeries Lafayette Group. Appointed CEO of Citynove, the real estate business unit of Galeries Lafayette Group, since it was created in 2008, Eric Costa has initiated with his teams the real estate transformation of department stores especially with the opening of “Lafayette Anticipations” Group Foundation, designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas, the projects of Eataly (4,000 sqm in the Marais area, Paris) and Champs-Elysees in 2019 (by the architect Bjarke Ingels). Eric Costa is also vice-president of the “Comité des Champs–Elysées” and was named Real Estate Director of the year in 2018.

Frédéric joined L’Oréal as global head of real estate in June 2015. He is managing a portfolio of about 4 billion sqm including offices, warehouse, retail, factories, and research centres. This portfolio is spread in more than 70 countries. As general manager for 10 years (2005-2015) of ING Real Estate Finance, he developed a profitable real estate business. He was previously head of the real estate and infrastructure project finance department at Arthur Andersen / Ernst & Young Corporate Finance (2000-2005). He was also director at Crédit Lyonnais (1993-200) where he worked successively in real estate financing, real estate non performing loans and infrastrusture and environnment project finance. Prior to this, he was a developer at Vinci Group (1989-1993). Before his professional career, Frédéric was admitted to Paris Bar as a lawyer and obtained a post-graduate degree in Construction and Real Estate at the University Paris II.

Eric Donnet started his career in 1993 at Lyreco, in England, as a Financial Controller. In 1995, he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers as an Audit and Consulting Manager and — in 1997 — he returned to Lyreco in France to take the position of Development and Acquisitions Manager for Europe at Lyreco Management. In 2000, he joined Groupe Valeo as Head of Strategy and Special Projects for Valeo Distribution. In 2002, he joined the GE Real Estate group to successively hold the positions of Deputy Director of Bail Investissement Foncière, Managing Director of ADDVIM Property Management and Chief Executive Officer of Deltis FM. In 2005, he joined AEW Europe, a subsidiary of Natixis Global Asset Management and CDC, as the Head of Asset Management Europe. He was then promoted to Deputy CEO and Head of Operations. Since June 3, 2013, Eric Donnet has been the CEO of Groupama Immobilier. He is also the Chairman of asset management company GROUPAMA GAN REIM, since its creation in December 2014. Eric Donnet graduated from the ICN business school in Nancy and holds a DESCF (Finance and Accountancy Diploma).

Sigrid Duhamel joined BNP Paribas REIM in July 2017. In her capacity of CEO of BNP Paribas REIM France, she manages a team of 150 people, encompassing fund raising, development and marketing, investment, disposals and asset management as well as all functional activities. Sigrid Duhamel is also member of the Executive Committee of BNP Paribas REIM. Prior to joining BNP Paribas REIM France, Sigrid Duhamel was President of CBRE Global Investors France. She was formerly Corporate Real Estate Director of Groupe PSA, where she managed the global real estate portfolio. Sigrid Duhamel has dual citizenship, French and Danish. She holds a Master in Sciences in Civil Engineering and graduated in 1990 from Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics (ESTP). She earned her MBA from INSEAD in 1995.

As chief executive of ULI Europe, Lisette van Doorn is responsible for the development of the Institute’s activities across the region, including its renowned pan-European conferences and over 250 local meetings and events across 14 countries. She is responsible for working with ULI’s staff both locally and globally to deliver more high profile content and reports; coordinating Advisory Services panels and Urban Plan; and expanding the Institute’s thought leadership across Europe. Van Doorn joined ULI in January 2015 from LIRE, her own consultancy business, which advises international institutional real estate investors and fund managers on strategy, organisational optimisation and portfolio structuring. Prior to this, van Doorn was country manager for CBRE Global Investors where she managed a €1.6bn portfolio of assets in Italy and fund manager of two shopping centre funds (€ 1.3 billion) with assets in Spain, Portugal and Italy. Before joining CBRE Global Investors, van Doorn was founding chief executive for INREV, the European association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles for four and a half years. Van Doorn started her career at ING Investment Management, where she held account manager and assistant controller positions before being made managing director of research & strategy for ING Real Estate Investment Management Europe.