Speaker Biography
Honoré Achille Simo
Executive Director, Value and Risk Advisory, JLL
Achille is Executive Director at JLL, a global real estate services company with offices in 80 countries. Operating from the Frankfurt office, he oversees the global client care program for the Value and Risk Advisory division (VRA) and the business development team. With more than 2000 experts conducting valuations exceeding $3.2 trillion annually, VRA is a one of the leading providers of valuation and risk analyses across all stages of the real estate life cycle, including acquisition, accounting, financing, and internal decision-making.
Prior to joining JLL in 2007, Achille served as Project Controller at Drees & Sommer, a leading building consultancy firm in Europe. He kickstarted his career in 2002 as a Business Development Manager at Bildau & Bussmann, a Berlin based windows manufacturing company.
Achille graduated from the Technical University of Berlin with a degree in architecture, with focus on property development. He is Chartered Surveyor member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA). He serves as co-chair of ULI’s European Product Council “Office and Mixed-Use” and co-chair of the ULI’s Germany Product Council “Sustainable Cities”. He sits on EPRA’s PropTech and Innovation Committee.
He is co-author of a book on Alternative Real Estates (Spezialimmobilien von A bis Z) and of many publications covering diverse topics such as Office Highrises, Corporate Real Estates, M&A in the Real Estate Market, Leasehold, ESG and Impact on Value and AI. Achille frequently shares his knowledge and insights at conferences and as a guest lecturer in advanced education programs at universities, including IREBS in Germany, ESSEC Business School in France and the European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV).
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