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Mr Lewis is Senior Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of IXIS AEW Europe, and serves on the firm’s Board of Directors. He comes to IXIS AEW Europe while serving as Chief Executive of Curzon Global Partners, a position held since the formation of Curzon in 1999. Prior to that, Mr Lewis was responsible for managing the international investment activities of AEW Capital Management. He joined AEW in 1987 and has served the company in a variety of senior positions that include acquisitions, asset management, investment restructuring and international investment. Mr Lewis has managed AEW’s international activities since 1998, having previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of a partially owned subsidiary of AEW focused on investments in emerging markets. Mr Lewis has also served as Director of Asset Management (a €4.0 billion equity portfolio) for AEW (1994-96) and as President of Capital Management Resources (1992–94), a wholly owned subsidiary of AEW involved in the management, restructuring, structured sale and liquidation of the entire asset portfolio of two failed US banking institutions. Prior to the start of his career with AEW, Mr Lewis spent three years with a Boston-based banking institution where he served as a Commercial Banking Officer, lending the institution’s capital to regional corporations. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A.) and the PMD Program at Harvard Business School. Mr Lewis resides in London and maintains offices in London and Paris.