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= Professor Andrew Baum =

Professor of Practice, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Professor Andrew Baum is an English academic specialising in property finance, development and technology, property funds and international real estate investment. He leads the Oxford Future of Real Estate Initiative at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, examining the impact of innovation and technology on the global real estate industry, 2025-2030.

He is also the chairman of real estate fund manager Newcore Capital Management, and was founder (and until 2020) chairman of investment advisory firm Property Funds Research. He is an advisor to a wide range of other property organisations.

Professor Baum is the author or co-author of several textbooks, and a regular contributor to international property and investment journals and conferences. He was awarded the UK PropTech Association Special Achievement Award for 2019.

As a semi-professional footballer, he represented British Universities and played for Tiong Bahru FC in the Singapore Premier League.

Academic career
Andrew holds BSc (1973), MPhil (1980) and PhD (1989) degrees from the University of Reading in the UK. He was a lecturer at the University’s Faculty of Urban and Regional Studies from 1975 to 1985, before taking up the post of Reader at the Centre for Property Valuation and Management, City University, London until 1987.

He held the Chair in Land Management at the Henley Business School, University of Reading, from 1989 to 2013, and was appointed Emeritus Professor at University of Reading in 2013.

Between 2009 and 2014, Andrew was Honorary Professor of Real Estate Investment at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge from 2011 to 2014. He was appointed Visiting Professor of Management Practice at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford in 2013, then became Professor of Practice there in June 2018.

From 2000 to 2012, he was an Executive Education Instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, USA and a Visiting Scholar in Real Estate Finance at the University of Sydney, Australia.

In 2002, Andrew created the Reading Real Estate Foundation (RREF), an educational charity established to support real estate education.

Professional and business career
Andrew is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), and a Member of the CFA Institute for chartered financial analysts. He is also an Associate Member of the UK Society of Investment Professionals and an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Property Researchers. He has also been appointed an Academic Fellow of the Urban Land Institute

He joined Prudential in 1987, as the company’s first director of property research. He then went on to found his own property research company, RES, in 1990, which was sold to Henderson Global Investors in 1997. For Henderson, he became Chief Investment Officer (Property) and later Director of International Property.

After working for a period as Head of Strategy for Invesco Real Estate, in 2001 he established property research and investment company OPC, which was later sold to CBRE Investors to create CBRE Global Investment Partners.

Andrew was a non-executive director of Grosvenor Limited from 2000 to 2008, and a member of the supervisory board of the Schroder Exempt Property Unit Trust between 1999 and 2011. He has also been the non-executive chairman and director of a publishing company (1999-2005) and a brewery (1999-2014).

Selected publications

 * Proptech 3.0: The Future of Real Estate, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, 2017


 * Real Estate Investment: A Strategic Approach, Routledge, 2015
 * Global Real Estate: Strategies, Structures, Decisions (with Hartzell, D), Wiley Blackwell, 2012
 * The Income Approach to Property Valuation (with Mackmin, D), Elsevier, 2018 - seventh edition)
 * Property Investment Appraisal (with Crosby, N) Blackwell Publishing, 2008 - third edition)
 * Statutory Valuations (with Sams, G), Elsevier, 2007 - fourth edition
 * Commercial Real Estate Investment, Estates Gazette, 2002
 * Freeman's Guide to the Property Industry (ed), Freeman Publishing, 2001 - second edition
 * Property Investment Depreciation and Obsolescence, Routledge, 1991