Robert has over 30 years of real estate experience in European Real Estate both as a principal and as an advisor. Retail experience includes shopping centre design and leasing, retail park development, retailer advisory and transactions and he has acted in the capacity at expert witness on a number of planning enquiries in the UK. In addition he has specific experience in outsourcing services for major corporate occupiers across EMEA. Robert is a member of a number of Retail organisations including European Board Member for the International Council of Shopping Centres, and in the past a number of global occupier organisations such as  CoreNet  and is a past Executive Board Director in IDRC Europe. He and has been a speaker at many European Conferences and has published numerous articles.