Professor Colin Lizieri

Professor Lizieri became a Fellow of Pembroke in 2009.  Colin was, until October 2022, the Grosvenor Professor of Real Estate Finance and served as  Head of the Department of Land Economy between 2015 and 2019. He has over thirty years experience as a researcher, consultant and academic in real estate and financial markets. Prior to joining Cambridge he taught at the University of Reading, at City University and the University of Toronto. Recognition of his work includes the award of the David Ricardo medal by the American Real Estate Society, "the highest recognition by ARES of scholarly work in the real estate discipline"; the International Real Estate Society Achievement Award for international real estate research “for outstanding achievement in real estate research, education and practice at the international level”; and election as an honorary fellow of the Society of Property Researchers “in recognition of an outstanding contribution in the field of property research”. Colin chaired the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on The Future of Real Estate and Urbanization 2014-2016. He has acted as a consultant to national governments, central banks, sovereign wealth funds and other major real estate actors and has acted as an expert witness in the Upper Chamber (Lands Tribunal) and the Australian Federal Courts.