BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management (BNP Paribas REIM) has appointed a global head of strategy to consolidate its growth objectives.
This new role is entrusted to Maarten van der Spek, a Dutch national, who has started on 6 April.
Van der Spek has over twenty years of experience in research, market analysis and investment strategy for leading investment managers and institutional investors. He joins from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), where he has been a senior strategist for the past five years. Before then, he was head of Private Real Estate Strategy at PGGM Investments from 2009 to 2016, following more than ten years at ING REIM, where he was initially senior account manager before being appointed managing director research & strategy Continental Europe in 2004.
Based in Paris, Van der Spek will manage an international team spread over several major European cities. He will report to Laurent Ternisien, Chief Client Officer and member of the Executive Committee of BNP Paribas REIM.
The new position will bring together two of BNP Paribas REIM’s key functions, research and strategy and the development of new products, in order to better meet the expectations of the firm’s institutional and private investors.
