Sophie van Oosterom is the Global Head of Schroders Capital's Real Estate. She is responsible for leading the growth strategy of the business and ultimately delivering investment performance to clients. She chairs the real estate global management committee and global investment committee. Before joining Schroders Capital, Sophie was most recently CEO and Chief Investment Officer of EMEA for CBRE Global Investors (now CBRE IM), where she successfully focused on performance and resulting growth of the direct platform to EUR 40bn AuM. She also served as a member of the global executive committee and global investment committee. Before that Sophie was a managing director at Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners (now Silverpeak) and head of asset/portfolio management for Europe and Asia. She started her career in investment banking with JP Morgan and Barings. Sophie holds a MSc in Economics cum laude from the University of Amsterdam. She is a Governing Trustee of the Urban Land Institute since January 2020 and an honorary citizen of Marseille, France.
