Andrew Baum is a leading researcher on the global PropTech industry. Having joined Pi Labs as Research & Strategy Partner, Andrew provides expert insights to all our key stakeholders, both internally and externally, leading our research function as we work to predict the changes faced by the industry over the next decade, including the impact of innovation and technology on the global real estate industry.

From 2016 to 2021, Andrew was Professor of Practice at the University of Oxford, where he led the Future of Real Estate Initiative at the Saïd Business School.

He is also Chairman of Newcore Capital Management, a real estate fund manager focussed on alternatives. 

He founded RES (a property research company) in 1990 and (with his partners) sold the business to Henderson Global Investors in 1997 when he became Chief Investment Officer (Property) at Henderson and later Director of International Property.

In 2001 he founded OPC, a property research and investment company which was sold to CBRE Investors to create CBRE Global Investment Partners, which now has around $40bn of assets under management. He was a non-executive director of Grosvenor Limited from 2000 to 2008, and a member of the supervisory board of the Schroder Exempt Property Unit Trust, 1999-2011. He has also acted as non-executive chairman and/or director of a publishing company (1999-2005) and a brewery (1999-2014).

Andrew held the Chair in Land Management at the Henley Business School, University of Reading, from 1989 to 2013 and was founder in 2002 of the Reading Real Estate Foundation, an educational charity established to support real estate education. He was appointed Emeritus Professor at Reading in 2013. He was Honorary Professor of Real Estate Investment at the University of Cambridge from 2009 to 2014, and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge from 2011 to 2014. He is a Visiting Professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, USA..

He holds BSc, MPhil and PhD degrees from the University of Reading in the UK. A qualified member of the RICS and the CFA Institute (UK ASIP), he is the author or co-author of several textbooks with combined sales of over 60,000.