Piet Eichholtz is Professor of Finance and Real Estate and chair of the Finance Department at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He teaches courses in Finance and in Real Estate Finance and Investments.
His practical experience includes positions at ABP and NIBC Bank, and non-executive board memberships of property investment companies NSI, Oppenheim Immobilien Kapitalanlagengeselschaft and IPD. He has also earned a solid reputation as an entrepreneur. In 1996 he started Global Property Research, an international consultancy firm specialized in property companies, which was acquired by Kempen & Co in 2001. After leaving Kempen in 2004, he became co-founder of Finance Ideas, a financial consultancy company.
Currently, he is a member of the Advisory Boards of the RO Group, of the Investment Committees of Loyalis, and of the Housing Scenario Group of Bouwfonds.
Piet Eichholtz has provided extensive services to public society, mainly through board memberships of industry organizations in the property sector, such as EPRA, the European Public Real Estate Association, but also as an advisor to various government agencies. In early 2004, he was a special property advisor to the UN Good Offices Mission on Cyprus, and he has consulted with the Dutch ministry of housing on several occasions. He is one of the initiators of the GRESB Foundation, responsible for the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark, which is supported by a global group of leading pension funds.
His academic work has resulted in a great number of publications, both in the Netherlands and internationally. Most of his work regards real estate markets, with a focus on international investment, portfolio management, property companies, and housing markets. He has also done extensive research on the long-run behavior of real estate markets, and on the relation between environmental and financial performance of properties.
He received his Master's degree in Economics in 1988 from the University of Amsterdam, and received a PhD in Finance from Maastricht University in 1994.
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