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DRO PhD student Mehmet Saglam won first place in the Student Paper Competition

The 2011 Real Estate Symposium took place on December 8, 2011, from 12 to 5 p.m. at Faculty House, Columbia University, and was open exclusively to alumni of Columbia Business School. The keynote speaker was Richard B. Saltzman of Colony Capital.

The Future Development in New York panel, moderated by Tommy Craig '82, senior vice president, Hines, and adjunct professor, Columbia Business School, addressed the challenges and opportunities of creating large, mixed-use development projects in New York.

Jeffrey Barclay '83, managing director and CIO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Real Estate Investment Group, adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, and chairman of the 2011 Real Estate Symposium Steering Committee moderated the panel discussion on the state of the commercial real estate debt markets.

The main panel on designing and executing investment strategies centered on an outlook of cautious optimism amidst a backdrop of unprecedented uncertainty for real estate markets over the next few years.

Elliott Cohen '06 is the co-founder and CEO of City Maps, a service popular with NYC brokers.

Columbia Business School Professor Elke Weber met with the Dalai Lama as one of 10 behavioral and climate scholars and scientists who discussed ecology, ethics, and interdependence during a five-day workshop in October in Dharamsala, India.

The Program for Financial Studies held its inaugural conference, "Finance in a World of Uncertainties," on November 4, 2011.  A capacity audience including students, alumni, and practitioners welcomed the important perspective of Erskine Bowles '69, Co-Chair of the 2010 National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, who served as keynote speaker for the event. Participants then attended concurrent panels discussing Asset Management and Corporate Finance.

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Real Estate Adjunct Professors Jeffrey Barclay '83, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Thomas Craig '82, Hines speak about returning to the classroom in the latest issue of Hermes.