The real estate leaders who will be travelling to North America to strike new deals and encourage inward investment into the UK after Brexit, have been announced.
The 12-strong team of developers, institutional fund managers, advisers and architects, will travel to Toronto – where they will be joining communities and local government minister Sajid Javid – and New York, to sell the UK to international investors.
The delegates will be part of an investment mission on 21-23 September, hosted by Estates Gazette and the Department for International Trade, in partnership with Savills.
Regeneration investment is a core part of the trip, and in New York the delegation will take part in a panel discussion at the World Trade Center, hosted in partnership with Silverstein Properties.
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Toronto: click here to see the agenda and register to attend
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New York: click here to see the agenda and register to attend
The World Trade Center is a sprawling 16-acre mixed-used regeneration site, including a state-of-the-art transport hub.
Award-winning architect Sir Richard Rogers and his firm Rogers Stirk Harbor + Partners, designed 3 World Trade Center, one of the five iconic office towers that make up the site.
In Toronto, the real estate team will join a number of other trade delegations pushing the UK government’s Midlands Engine growth agenda which prime minister Theresa May said in August she was backing “all the way”.
The UK delegation comprises:
- Sir Edward Lister, special adviser for the Department of International Trade and chairman of the Homes and Communities Agency
- Stephen Down, head of central London and international investment, Savills
- Duncan Sutherland, executive director Sigma Capital and board member of the Regeneration Investment Organisation and HS2
- Kevin McCabe, founder, Scarborough Group International
- Lee Polisano, president and founding partner, PLP Architecture
- Stephen Barter, chairman, real estate advisory practice, KPMG
- Alex Greaves, residential fund manager, M&G
- Jonathan Harris, senior managing director/head of real estate – Europe, Macquarie Capital
- John Moffat, development director, Capital & Centric
- Rasheed Hassan, director – cross border investment, Savills
- Sajid Javid, UK secretary of state for communities and local government
- Sayida Husain, head of capital investment, infrastructure – investor relations, developed markets, business
- Damian Wild, editor, Estates Gazette
