Yolande Barnes

Biographie : I am a practice professor who has spent 39 years researching property markets, 33 of them in industry and 6 at UCL as Chair of the Bartlett Real Estate Institute. I am also a consultant and adviser to a variety of organisations: public, private and third-sector. When I was head of World Research at Savills, I took a global, cross-sector view of real estate and became increasingly interested in very long run trends. My work at UCL is deliberately unfocussed, looking at the combination and interaction of disruptive trends in demographics, finance, technology, society, the environment, and governments in changing global real estate. I believe that real estate, meaning land and everything attached to it, is at the heart of sustainability. Understanding real estate value in all its forms is therefore essential to solving the wicked problems and grand challenges of the 21st century. To this end, I see as imperative the communication of knowledge and the activation of partnerships between academia and industry.