Ross is a leading industry practitioner with over 35 years’ experience in property and urban development across a number of industry sectors. He has held senior roles with the Property Council of Australia as Executive Director, National Chief Operating Officer, and National Executive Director of the Residential Development Council. He helped lead their national cities strategy and forged the first MOU with the ULI in Washington in 2000. In 2001 he was made inaugural CEO of city-wide marketing and investment authority Brisbane Marketing, and in recent years he has been an independent advisor with a range of property companies from builders to architects to economists and engineers.
He has been a frequent writer and guest speaker on urban development themes both in Australia and the US. In 2018 he was published in a global study of suburban development by MIT Boston and Chapman University (Calif), entitled Infinite Suburbia, and in late 2019 was invited by the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism (Cambridge, Mass.) to judge a series of student works on polycentric cities. In early 2020 he was invited by Texas A&M University to deliver a series of lectures on Metropolitan Growth and Development. In 2020 he completed an MIT Certificate in Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investment.
He is a founding director of policy group Suburban Futures, and in 2018, he was asked by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane to Chair a formal suburban renewal program called The Better Suburbs Initiative.
Director, Suburban Futures
Ross is a leading industry practitioner with over 35 years’ experience in property and urban development across a number of industry sectors. He has held senior roles with the Property Council of Australia as Executive Director, National Chief Operating Officer, and National Executive Director of the Residential Development Council. He helped lead their national cities strategy and forged the first MOU with the ULI in Washington in 2000. In 2001 he was made inaugural CEO of city-wide marketing and investment authority Brisbane Marketing, and in recent years he has been an independent advisor with a range of property companies from builders to architects to economists and engineers.
He has been a frequent writer and guest speaker on urban development themes both in Australia and the US. In 2018 he was published in a global study of suburban development by MIT Boston and Chapman University (Calif), entitled Infinite Suburbia, and in late 2019 was invited by the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism (Cambridge, Mass.) to judge a series of student works on polycentric cities. In early 2020 he was invited by Texas A&M University to deliver a series of lectures on Metropolitan Growth and Development. In 2020 he completed an MIT Certificate in Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investment.
He is a founding director of policy group Suburban Futures, and in 2018, he was asked by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane to Chair a formal suburban renewal program called The Better Suburbs Initiative.
Director, Suburban Futures
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