Sarah Whitney (since 2017)

Sarah is a Chartered Accountant and real estate specialist. She advises clients in the built and natural assets sector on real estate, economics, finance and investment issues. In a 30-year career, Sarah has worked with national governments, local authorities, banks, universities, property developers, and major corporates and investors, both in the UK and internationally.

Sarah’s executive career was spent at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she was a corporate finance partner; at DTZ (now Cushman & Wakefield), where she was head of the Consulting & Research business and served on the DTZ Global Executive Committee; and at CBRE, where she headed the Government & Infrastructure team and served on the UK board. Sarah is now a non-executive director of a number of companies and charitable bodies, and spent the last 8 years as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge teaching land economy at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

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