Jacques Gordon named new director of the Graaskamp Center for Real Estate

The Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has appointed Jacques Gordon as the new director of the Graaskamp Center for Real Estate.

Gordon, currently the senior executive in residence at MIT’s Center for Real Estate, will succeed Mark Eppli, who stepped down as director in August but will continue teaching in the Wisconsin Real Estate Program.

A prominent figure in the real estate industry, Gordon has a remarkable career that includes his tenure as the Global Head of Research and Strategy for LaSalle Investment Management. For nearly three decades, he led the firm’s global investment strategy, overseeing research that informed investment decisions across 30 countries. Although retired from this role, he remains a senior advisor to LaSalle.

Gordon has also played a pivotal role in the real estate world through his creation of the Jones Lang LaSalle Transparency Index in 1999, now a global standard for understanding internati