Retail real estate investment management specialist Pradera has announced the appointment of Robert Walker as an independent non-executive director of Pradera and a member of the Pradera investment committee.
Walker has extensive experience in global real estate investment and in particular in retail property. Having been CEO of the Macquarie Wanda Real Estate Fund, a 7 million sq ft retail portfolio in China in the late 2000’s, he worked at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority from 2009 to 2017 where he was head of Asia Pacific and a global executive committee member in the Real Estate Department.
During the 1990’s, he also held various roles at JLL and then at Hines based in Hong Kong and then Beijing.
'The retail property market is undergoing major disruption as new technologies and innovations continue to change the way we shop and this is changing the way retail property works,' said Walker. 'This is both exciting and challenging and I am pleased to be able to participate in this through my role at Pradera given their experience in the retail property investment and operations market.'
