GRESB Foundation Board Member Profile: Patrick Kanters

Get to know GRESB Foundation Board Chair Patrick Kanters and see how his organization approaches ESG. Mr. Kanters joined the Board in January 2022.

 

 

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Name: Patrick Kanters

Title: Chief Investment Officer, Private Investments; Member of the Management Board

Organization: APG Asset Management

Board position: GRESB Foundation Chair

 

Patrick Kanters is Chief Investment Officer Private Investments and Member of the Management Board at APG Asset Management and Chair of the GRESB Foundation Board. Prior to joining APG in 2005, Patrick spent 11 years with ING Real Estate. Based in APG’s Hong Kong office, Patrick is responsible for all the company’s real estate, infrastructure, natural resources and private equity activities and the newly established asset owner partnering initiatives. The client’s investment holdings are concentrated in securities of publicly traded real estate, infrastructure and natural resource companies and selected private entities, funds and co-investments in Europe, the Americas and the Asia Pacific region.

Patrick has been a member of the board of Steen & Strom, the leading Scandinavian shopping center investor, operator, and developer, and a member of the Executive Board of the European Public Real Estate Association. In addition, Patrick served as chairman of the Management Board of INREV and was ULI Executive Committee member. He holds a MSc in Real Estate, Project Management & Housing from Delft University of Technology and a post doctorate degree in Real Estate from the University of Amsterdam.

 

Organization Approach to ESG

As a pension provider, APG is focused on returns, but also on its contribution to society and sustainability in the broadest sense. Because pensions are ultimately about people, about life, and about living together in society. To APG, responsible returns are at least equally important as financial returns. They go hand in hand, you cannot have one without the other.

Patrick has been a member of the board of Steen & Strom, the leading Scandinavian shopping center investor, operator, and developer, and a member of the Executive Board of the European Public Real Estate Association. In addition, Patrick served as chairman of the Management Board of INREV and was ULI Executive Committee member. He holds a MSc in Real Estate, Project Management & Housing from Delft University of Technology and a post doctorate degree in Real Estate from the University of Amsterdam.

 

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