REAL PROPERTY AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY WHY DO COMPANIES RENT GREEN? About the authors

Estate Finance and Investments. He has provided extensive services to public society, mainly through board memberships of industry organizations in the property sector, but also as an advisor to various government agencies. For example, he was a special property advisor to the UN Good Offices Mission on Cyprus. His academic work has resulted in a great number of publications, both in the Netherlands and internationally. Most of his work examines real estate markets, with a focus on international investment, portfolio management and housing markets. Key issues on his research agenda for the coming years are sustainable real estate and the effects of demographics on real estate markets. After having gained practical experience at the ABP and NIB Capital, he started Global Property Research, an international consultancy firm specialized in property companies, which was acquired by Kempen & Co in 2001. After leaving Kempen in 2004, he became co-founder of Finance Ideas, a financial consultancy company. He is currently a non-executive board member at IPD Holding, a member of the Advisory Boards of Redevco and the RO Group