2026 Speakers

Joe is Stanhope’s Head of Investment. His job is to help create alignment with our partners and a focus on origination and execution of property transactions.

Since joining Stanhope in 2019 Joe has led on the acquisition of a 525,000 sq ft City of London tower development site (70 Gracechurch Street) and a 300,000 sq ft core plus investment (Building 7, Chiswick Park). Before joining Stanhope Joe was at Alchemy Asset Management, a specialist operating partner focussed on the office sector in London and the South East. He’s especially experienced in the City of London having worked for a number of years as an investment agent at BNP Paribas Real Estate. Joe is a qualified Chartered Surveyor and holds an MSc in Real Estate from the University of Reading and a Business Degree from Durham University.

Tim joined Estates Gazette as deputy editor in July 2019. He became editor in February 2025, coinciding with the magazine's acquisition by Mark Allen Group. Before joining Estates Gazette, he was property editor at Financial News, a Dow Jones publication. Earlier in his career, he wrote for and edited magazines covering capital markets and businesses across developed and emerging economies, including titles at The Economist Group and Thomson Reuters.

Abigail Dean is the Global Head of Strategic Insights for Nuveen Real Assets. In this role she is responsible for the organisation’s global sustainability, proptech and research functions. The Strategic Insights team work closely with colleagues across investment, product development, compliance, risk and investor relations to ensure that our investment strategies in Real Estate, Infrastructure and Natural Capital are underpinned by an understanding of global megatrends and that sustainability is integrated into fund and asset management.

Since joining Nuveen, Abigail has overseen the organization setting a target for the Real Estate business to achieve Net Zero Carbon by 2040. Abigail is a member of both the Nuveen Real Estate and the Nuveen Real Assets Executive Leadership Team and has spearheaded the integration of sustainability considerations into the investment process. She has also lead the organisation to develop investment guidelines related to physical and transition climate change risk, as set out in the Taskforce on Climate Related Financial Disclosure Framework.

Abigail joined Nuveen Real Estate in 2016. She previously worked at JLL, where she led on sustainability for the Property and Asset Management team in the UK and also held a Director role in JLL’s sustainability consulting team, Upstream.

Abigail is passionate about driving sustainable change in Real Assets Investment and sits on several industry committees and boards including the GRESB Standards Committee and the CRREM Foundation Board. She previously chaired the INREV ESG committee and is also a Better Buildings Partnership Board Member.

Main responsibilities Imogen is Head of UK Real Estate Equity as part of the Aviva Investors Private Markets platform. Her focus is to drive strategy, investment performance and commercialisation across UK client solutions including real estate funds, strategic partnerships, co-invests, segregated mandates and single sector strategies.

Experience and qualifications Imogen has previously held a number of senior roles within Aviva Investors including Head of Strategic Investment and Head of UK Funds where she focused on growth and investment performance across real estate equity funds of ~£10bn AUM. She joined Aviva Investors from Legal and General Investment Management where she was the Senior Asset Manager for LGIM’s long income property funds. Imogen also has property investment experience at Lloyds Bank, Mapeley Estates and consultancy DTZ.

Imogen holds a BA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Leeds and an MA in Property Investment and Development from Nottingham Trent University. She is a member of the Investment Property Forum and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Emilie is Global Head of Offices at BNP Paribas Asset Management Alts.

In her role, Emilie is driving the business’ global offices strategy, overseeing the active asset management of BNPP AM Alts' European offices portfolio, and ensuring it is continually positioned to meet increasingly demanding occupier requirements and deliver resilient cash flow to its clients. Prior to this, Emilie was Head of Asset Management and Disposals for France overseeing the French portfolio in all sectors.

Emilie joined AXA IM Real Assets in 2011 as an Asset Manager, before becoming Head of Disposals. Emilie began her career at AEW Europe, where she started in acquisitions before becoming an Asset Manager.

She has over 19 years of experience in real estate asset management.

Emilie is a graduate of ESSEC, a leading business school in France

Simon is a highly experienced and respected commercial property expert, with more than 35 years’ experience across the UK and international property markets. He joined BNP Paribas Real Estate UK in March 2013, having previously been a partner at Deloitte.

Simon leads the firm’s National Markets teams, focusing on the delivery of large-scale, innovative mixed-use regeneration projects across the UK. He works closely with government, local authorities, developers, investors and occupiers, and has helped deliver more than £10bn of investment into regional UK markets over the past decade.