Thursday, 29 January 2009
10 Queen Street Place, London EC4R 1BE

SJ Berwin and Goodwin Procter have created a unique conference on international real estate capital markets. There are two editions of the conference. The first was successfully held in New York City at Goodwin Procter's new offices in The New York Times Building and featured a keynote address by Professor Robert Shiller, one of the most respected economists of our time. The second event is being held in London at 10 Queen Street Place, the offices of SJ Berwin on Thursday 29 January.

The London conference will feature panel discussions led by prominent voices from the real estate industry and renowned experts will deliver the keynote addresses, including:

Liz Peace, Chief Executive, British Property Federation
Liz became the CEO of the British Property Federation in 2002, following a long and varied career in the MoD, latterly the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (now QinetiQ plc).  Since then she has managed to change the Government’s perception of the commercial property industry, to dissuade the Government from legislating on commercial leases, to win innumerable changes to planning and tax legislation and, working as part of a pan-industry alliance, to persuade the Government to introduce REITs. 

George Magnus, Senior Economic Adviser, UBS Investment Bank
George Magnus is the Senior Economic Adviser at UBS Investment Bank. Previously he had served as the Chief Economist with effect from the merger of UBS and Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC). Having chaired the Investment Committee of the Trustee Board of UBS’ UK pension and life assurance fund for several years, he continues to serve on the Committee.

Mr. Magnus’ role is to investigate and analyse global economic topics and engage with clients and the media. He has been working on several thematic issues, including demographic change, the economic causes and consequences of globalization, the creation and deployment of petrodollars and sovereign wealth funds, the implications of a the re-emergence of a new Silk Road in Asia and the credit cycle in the global economy.