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Lee Elliott

Partner, Global Head of Occupier Research

Global Headquarters, GB

About
A thought-leader with more than 20 years’ experience analysing trend in Corporate Real Estate, Lee leads Knight Frank’s dedicated Global Occupier Research programme. His passion is to develop market insight and foresight that supports the growth of both occupier and Landlord / investor clients; advances real estate industry thinking and solutions; and ultimately supports a stronger inter-relationship between the supply and demand-side of global property markets.

Prior to joining Knight Frank, Lee was a Regional Director at JLL where he was responsible for the conception, design and delivery of the property industry’s first ever Global Corporate Real Estate Survey.

Lee writes and presents extensively on a range of corporate real estate issues such as workplace strategy, the emergence of data and analytics to inform CRE decision-making, portfolio planning, the real estate implications of M&A activity and increasingly the rise of co-working.

Lee is lead author of Knight Frank’s flagship occupier research report - (Y)OUR SPACE – which launched in November 2018 and has been directly presented to more than 4,000 people around the wold in the last 18 months as well as securing coverage on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme. The research focuses on the 5 trends that will influence the future dynamic of the global workplace. This work has recently been supplemented by a thought leadership piece focusing on the 12 Dynamics of the post COVID-19 workplace.
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