Capital Markets & Global Property Lunch in The Benelux

Joseph Gyourko

Professor of Real Estate and Finance, The Wharton School

Mr. Gyourko is the Martin Bucksbaum Professor of Real Estate, Finance and Business & Public Policy at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has served as a Director of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton for the past quarter century and is currently a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Gyourko is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and was co-director of the special NBER project on housing markets and the financial crisis. Mr. Gyourko is an Advisory Board Member at CenterSquare Investment Management.

Werner Sohier

Senior Global Real Estate Executive

Mr. Sohier is a distinguished leader with over 42 years’ experience spanning development, consulting, and investment. Most recently, he served as a Senior Director at PGGM, instrumental in managing global listed and private real estate for the $270B Dutch asset management firm. Mr. Sohier has a doctorandus degree in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, a master’s from Georgia State University in Atlanta, and a postgraduate degree in real estate investment (MRE) from the University of Amsterdam. He also holds an Executive Education certification from Harvard Business School in Private Equity and Venture Capital.