Will Robson is Executive Director and Global Head of Real Estate Solutions Research at MSCI. He is responsible for the direction and delivery of MSCI’s applied real estate research agenda which seeks to help clients understand their real estate portfolios and the markets in which they compete. The research leverages the unparalleled breadth and depth of MSCI’s private real estate data by combining it with the firm’s powerful analytical tools helping clients tackle their everyday investment problems. Prior to MSCI, Will spent close to five years at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority as a senior, founding member of the real estate research team, helping to build that function by building tools and analytical frameworks to aid and enhance the real estate investment process. Will also worked as a research analyst at M&G Real Estate during which time he became responsible for the firm’s property derivatives activities and also become heavily involved in developing an approach to cash flow simulation risk modelling. Will began his career as an Economist with the Royal Mail and holds both an MSc and BA in Economics from the University of York and University of Newcastle upon Tyne respectively.
