KATHLEEN VERELST

Chief Investment Officer

Member of the Management Board

Kathleen was most recently Senior Advisor, Investment and Divestment, for URW’s Management and Supervisory Boards.

She joined URW in 2021 after 22 years at Morgan Stanley in London, where she was a Managing Director and a Senior Advisor, working in the Real Estate Investment Banking, Commercial Real Estate Lending and M&A Restructuring departments.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, she was a lawyer for four years in New York at Shearman & Sterling and Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.

Kathleen holds a law degree from the University of Leuven (Belgium) and a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA).

Kathleen is Chief Investment Officer, and member of the Management Board, since January 1st, 2026.