Peter Kim joins QuadReal as managing director, Asia

QuadReal Property Group has appointed Peter Kim as managing director, Asia.

Kim will be responsible for building QuadReal's international portfolio, with an emphasis on QuadReal's strategy in the Asia Pacific region.

Kim brings 20 years of increasingly senior roles in the global real estate industry, having lived and worked in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East over the course of his career. Most recently, Kim was a senior portfolio manager in the real estate and infrastructure department at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), where he had coverage responsibilities over the Asia Pacific region. ADIA is a sovereign wealth fund founded to invest funds on behalf of the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

And previously, he was a managing director at CBRE Global Investors in Hong Kong. There, he had a dual role as regional head of acquisitions for Asia Pacific and fund manager of the CBRE Phoenix Real Estate Fund, a pan-Asian opportunistic strategy. He also spent 11 years in the investment banking and fixed income divisions at Lehman Brothers, where he built and led the bank's real estate investment banking team in Asia.

Kim graduated cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.