David Finkel will discuss the role played by private equity investors in global real estate markets in the past, present and future. Private capital has always formed a significant component of the global real estate investment landscape, however its role has expanded and evolved through time, and it will almost certainly continue to do so as the world adapts to the new challenges of the 21st century and a post-COVID world. New challenges and risks lay ahead, but also many potential opportunities for private equity to contriubute meaningfully to real estate investment going forward.