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Jeremy Newsum
Jeremy Newsum Chairman (2009-2011)
Phone: 202-624-7000
E-mail: chairman@uli.org












Jeremy Newsum, Executive Trustee of the Grosvenor Estate, is the Chairman of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), a global non-profit research and education institute dedicated to responsible land use. As ULI Chairman, Newsum will serve on a voluntary basis for a two-year term that ends on June 30, 2011.

The Grosvenor Estate, based in the United Kingdom, is a portfolio of businesses, rural estates and other investments, including Grosvenor, an international property group of privately-owned property development, investment and fund management businesses.

Grosvenor, with property assets under management of $20 billion, has interests in Central London, other areas of the UK, continental Europe, Southeast Asia, North America and Australia. From 1989 through June 2008, Newsum was also Group Chief Executive of Grosvenor.

A member of ULI since 1997, Newsum was most recently Chairman of ULI’s Policy and Practice Committee, which guides the Institute’s research and publishing agenda.

Newsum, 53, is a UK citizen who lives in Cambridge, England. He is a member of the Council of Imperial College, London and the Advisory Board to the Land Economy Department at University of Cambridge and has been a member of the Board of Advisors to the Mayor of London on the Olympic 2012 Legacy.

He was President of the British Property Federation from 2001-2002. Additionally, he was a member of the Assets Committee of the Church Commissioners from 1993 until December 2000 and a Director of the French property company, Société Foncière Lyonnaise, from 1997 – 2002.