Indraneel Karlekar
Global Head of Research and Portfolio Strategies, Real Estate, Principal Asset Management
Indraneel Karlekar is Global Head of Research and Portfolio Strategies for real estate at Principal Asset Management. His responsibilities include helping with allocation of capital via the creation of real estate portfolio strategies across the four quadrants of commercial real estate. He is a leading voice on global economic and real estate views and is a member of Principal Asset Management’s Economic Committee. Karlekar joined Principal Asset Management in September 2013 and has over 20 years’ worth of experience in real estate investing and research. Prior to his current role he has served as an executive vice president and chief investment strategist at Cole Real Estate Investments and head of global research and strategy at ING Clarion. Prior to ING, Karlekar was a member of the global research team at AIG Global Real Estate. He started his career as an Economic Analyst at The Economist Intelligence Unit.Karlekar has a bachelor’s degree in history from St Stephen’s College, Delhi and a Ph.D in economic geography from the University of Cambridge.
