Speaker Details

Gurjit Singh
Chief Property Development Officer, Sorouh Real Estate PJSC

Gurjit Singh has been internationally active in the real estate industry for more than 25 years, having been involved in the development of resort, commercial, retail, leisure, and residential township developments in the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and Singapore. Mr Singh is currently the Chief Property Development Officer overseeing the property development portfolio of Sorouh Real Estate PJSC both in the UAE and internationally, comprising hotels, leisure, retail, residential, office and mixed use township developments.

He has worked previously with numerous public listed diversified multinationals such as the Sime Darby Group, one of Malaysias largest multinationals; and the Sentosa Leisure Group in Singapore as the Group Director  Property, spearheading the place development, place management and investment marketing of the Sentosa Island destination in Singapore. Mr Singh was responsible for the overall destination development implementation of the US$8 billion dollar business plan for the Sentosa Resort including the new Integrated Resort and the prestigious Sentosa Cove residential waterfront development in Singapore. He headed the creative and development team that won the coveted international THEA Award for Outstanding Achievement for the Images of Singapore attraction on Sentosa which was presented in Disneyland California in March 2006. He was also part of the team that won the prestigious Cityscape Architectural award for best Leisure Development for the Palawan Beach Development, Sentosa which was presented in Dubai in December 2007.

On the professional front, Mr Singh is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Fellow of the Institute of Place Management, Fellow of the Land Institute United Kingdom, Fellow of the Institution of Surveyors Malaysia, a Member of the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers, a Member of the Association of Property and Facilities Management Singapore, an Associate Member of the Singapore Institute of Planners, and a Registered Property Valuer and Estate Agent.
 
He has spoken at numerous international conferences including Cityscape Dubai, Asia and China on real estate issues and authored numerous published articles on Place Management, Property Management, Property Development, Gated Developments, Real Estate Investment Trusts and Property Derivatives. He is also the author of a book entitled Property Management in Malaysia. Mr Singh, who is a graduate of the University of Cambridge, England, was also awarded the Malaysian Young Manager of the Year award in 1994.

 

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