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Piet Eichholtz is Professor of Finance and Real Estate and chair of the Finance Department at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
His practical experience includes positions at the ABP and NIB Capital, and non-executive board memberships of the NSI and Oppenheim Immobilien Kapitalanlagengeselschaft.
Eichholtz has also earned a solid reputation as an entrepreneur. In 1996 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.
He is currently a member of the Advisory Boards of Redevco Europe and the RO Group, of the Investment Committees of Blue Sky Group and Servatius, and of the Housing Scenario Group of Bouwfonds. He is also a non-executive director at IPD.
Eichholtz 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. In early 2004, he was a special property advisor to the UN Good Offices Mission on Cyprus, and he has consulted with the Dutch ministry of housing on several occasions. He has been on the board of the ROZ-IPD Commercial Property Index foundation, and is currently the chairman of the board of the AEDEX-IPD Dutch Social Housing Index foundation. He is also a member of the management board of EPRA.
Eichholtz’ academic work has resulted in a great number of publications, both in the Netherlands and internationally. Most of his work regards real estate markets, with a focus on international investment, portfolio management, property companies, and housing markets. He has also done extensive research on the long-run behavior of real estate markets, and specifically regarding demographics.