David Schaefer

David Schaefer is the Chairman of AEW's Asia Pacific region, one of the world's leading real estate investment advisors. He is also a member of the AEW Asia Investment Committee, as well as AEW's Management Committee. Schaefer has more than 30 years of real estate investment experience in the Asia Pacific region, with extensive portfolio management and investment experience. Prior to joining AEW in 2012, he served as Global Head of Institutional Capital and Head of Asia-Pacific at DTZ. Before that, he was Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific at Citi Property Investors, where he created Citi's first Pan-Asia real estate opportunity fund, the $1.3 billion CPI Capital Partners Asia Pacific.