Speaker: Nick French
Company: Oxford Brookes University
Position: Professor in Real Estate & DTZ Fellow in Commercial Property
Nick is a recognised expert in the area of property appraisal and valuation. He is Programme Director of the MSc Real Estate Programmes at Oxford Brookes University and teaches extensively in the areas of appraisal, valuation and corporate real estate on the BSc, MSc and MBA programmes. In 2008, he also ran the Real Estate Elective on the MBA Programmes at Oxford University Said Business School.
He is a member of the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) and is the principal author of the forthcoming IVSC Technical Information Paper on DCF. He is also a member of the Appraisal Institute (USA), CoreNet, ERES, AREUEA and ARES. Nick was a founder member of the European Real Estate Society and held the post of Executive Director until 1997. In 2008, he was Acting Editor of the ERES Journal of European Real Estate Research.
In 2007, Nick was awarded the DTZ Fellowship in Commercial Property. In this role, Nick works closely with colleagues at DTZ in writing papers, presenting conference papers and developing a research agenda for the real estate market.
Nick is also the Editor of the Journal of Property Investment & Finance, the award winning academic international journal of the real estate industry. He also writes regularly for The Journal of Corporate Real Estate, The Estates Gazette and other professional and academic journals.
