Where are they now?

Here's what we currently know about your whereabouts, and a little bit of extra information on what we've been up to. Some of this "news" is getting pretty dated - so if you have an update please let us now.

Students

If any of this information is out of date, please feel free to mail me your news. [e-mail: c.hilber@lse.ac.uk]

Last update: 13 Feburary 2006

Here's what we know about you so far. Most recent news is first ......

• Neel Shah (neeldshah@gmail.com) will be starting at iStar Financial in New York on their Investments team. (last update: 4/06)

• Francesc Fages (francesc.fages@stratreal.com) recently joined Strategic Real Estate Advisors as Investment Manager. Francesc lives and works in London. (last update: 3/06)

• James Walton (james@patroncapital.com) recently joined Patron Capital in London as an Associate. In his spare time James is busy working on the  LSE Global Real Estate Group www.lsegreg.com, a global real estate practitioners’ forum for LSE alumni as well as Gazump-free.co.uk, an entrepreneurial start-up aimed at preventing gazumping and gazundering in English and Welsh property markets. (last update 3/06)

• Mona Ye Zhang (monazhangye@gmail.com) has joined King Sturge Financial Services. (last update: 2/06)

• Inna Zhuranskaya (inna@lrp.co.uk) has joined London & Regional Properties in London as a senior associate. Her main task will be deal sourcing in Russia and Eastern Europe. (last update: 1/06)

• George Skandaras (gs@dtz.gr) has joined DTZ Greece International Property Advisors working as an Agency Associate. (last update: 1/06)

• Zheng Li (z.li5@lse.ac.uk) has joined the Ballentine Barbera Group in London working as a Consultant on transfer pricing for multinational companies. (last update: 12/05)

• Irene Rika Harito (irene.r.harito@jpmorgan.com) is back in the real estate field working as an equity research analyst covering Real Estate and J-REITs for JP Morgan Asset Management. (last update: 12/05)

• Jiro Kashiwagi started his new career at Morimoto Co. Ltd., a real estate development company in Tokyo, as General Manager, CEO office. (last update: 12/05)

• Ed Ghazal has joined Goldman Sachs International in London working in the FICC division as a Credit Derivatives Trader. (last update: 11/05)

• Katharina Fuchs (kfuchs@curzonglobal.com) has joined the Investment and Acquisitions Team of Curzon Global Partners in London working with Benny and Kevin. (last update: 10/05)

• Huiyi (Stella) Wang (huiyi.wang@gmail) has joined UBS Investment Bank, Operations Division, as an Analyst. Stella will start working in London in November 2005. (last update: 10/05)

• Magali Volet (magali.volet@ixisaew.com) has recently joined Ixis AEW Europe in Paris as Deputy Finance Manager specialising in Real Estate Funds. (last update: 07/05)

• Lodovico Pignatti Morano (lodovicopm@gmail.com) is currently working on Leveraged and Acquisition Finance in Banca Intesa London, whilst co-ordinating a real estate project in Southern Italy. (last update: 03/05)

• Kevin Muscat (k.p.muscat-alumni@lse.ac.uk) works for Curzon Global Partners in London in Investment and Acquisitions jointly with Benny Widerker (last update: 10/04).

• Panayiotis Parlalides (panayiotis.parlalides-alumni@lse.ac.uk) is currently working as a trainee chartered surveyor in a firm called L.Contantinou and Co located in Cyprus and also started a small developing firm of his own. He has recently been married and he and his wife are expecting a small baby boy in December 2004 (last update: 08/04).

• Linus Forsberg (Linus.Forsberg@fitchratings.com) has recently moved back to London and joined FitchRatings, where he is currently working in Structured Finance - CMBS.  Previously, Linus worked for three year for CBRE in London, Madrid and Frankfurt. (last update: 08/04).

• Benny Widerker is working as an Associate for Curzon Global Partners (a private equity fund) (last update: 08/04).

• Tobias Muhlhofer is in his second year as a Ph.D. student in Real Estate Finance with us at LSE (last update: 08/04).

• Eddy Sandorffy is back in London working for Tishman Speyer Properties in European Acquisitions. (last update: summer 04)

• Ioannis Gkanosis is working for the Greek telecommunications organization OTE in the newly established subsidiary that owns OTEs real estate holdings. The primary task is to organize the new company, then to rationalize the housing policy of OTE and then to manage the 2.500 buildings (the biggest real estate portfolio in Greece, for the time being). (last update: spring 04)

• Ali Hafiz is currently in Paris working on The Carlye Group's European Real Estate Fund.

• Sanjeev Vadhera just stared work at Jones Lang La Salle Corporate Finance in London.

• Pauline is now pursuing an MBA degree in Thailand and works part-time to teach a Real Estate course at Thammasat University.

• Philipp Voswinkel is now working with Cerberus Deutschland GmbH.

• Philipp Schaper is now working at LaSalle Investment Management in Munich.
• Quenna Chen is now working for the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taipei County Government. She also got married last November.
• Nadeer Kahn is working as a Statistical Officer at Inland Revenue.
• Hesham Kayal is now back in London working for JP Morgan Real Estate Investment Banking.
• Lilian Tang is currently in Hong Kong, but will be returning to the UK in April.
• Marina Tzamourani is working for Commercial Real Estate a subsidiary of the Commercial Bank of Greece.
• Victor Kao is working for the research division of Captial Securities Corporation.
• Andreas Lische continues to work for Stanhope plc. He's just moved to work on their Pasternoster Square project.
• Sara Al Awar has been working for Jones Lang Lasalle.
• Petros Kotsikis is working for Lambert Smith Hampton Hellas in the valuations department.
• Carlos Mendive (who took a number of REEF options while studying for the MSc RUPS) is now working for Mortgage Investment Services Stater N.V. in the Netherlands.
• Carl is using his qualification working for Property Market Analysis.
• Tariqal is back in London for an interview with Henderson's (the Fund Management group).
• We thought that Tommy was working in real estate in California, but it turns out that he's currently in Taiwan working as Assistant to the Chairman of Ta-Yung Hsing-Yeh Co. Ltd.
• Cheuk is on a two year management training program with Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong attached to the Banking and Products division in Consumer Banking. 
• Ralph is busy preparing applications for real estate PhD programmes.

Staff

And here's a little bit of news from us ......

Last update: 22 March 2006

• Paul Cheshire is on sabbatical during Lent Term and Summer Term 2006.  He will be back this autumn.
• Steve Gibbons recently passed Interim-Review.
• Christian Hilber recently got married in Switzerland and gave the key note speech at the opening ceremony of CUREM, Zuerich.
• Francois Ortalo-Magne again gave a few guest lectures in the GY457 course in December 2005.  We hope he will be able to visit us again in January 2007.
• Henry Overman recently got promoted to Reader.
• Frederic Robert-Nicoud has joined the Economic Geography cluster in September 2005.