Oxford Properties Group has appointed Hala El Akl as senior director, ESG and operations. El Akl will be based in London and will oversee Oxford’s ESG program with a focus on operations.
El Akl will work collaboratively across functions such as asset management, operations, development and finance/investment risk to launch Oxford’s global ESG strategy and framework. ESG is integral to Oxford as a business, and Oxford is among the industry leaders in this space, placing within the top 7 percent of GRESB globally for more than a decade.
El Akl joins Oxford from PLP Architecture, where she spent 12 years and was most recently a director, responsible for commercial, life sciences, residential, retail and mixed-use projects across the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. As a founding director of PLP Labs, she led teams exploring new ideas for future cities, with a focus on environmental and social sustainability.
In 2020, El Akl was the first recipi
