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Piers Venmore-Rowland graduated from Reading University with a BSc in Estate Management and an MA in Contemporary European Studies, and then worked in the West End of London where he qualified as a chartered surveyor. He was a London partner with Humbers, chartered surveyors and an investment surveyor in the City office of Richard Ellis. He gained his MSc in Finance from City University Business School and became a member of the Society of Investment Analysts in 1983. Piers worked in the City of London as a real estate and financials analyst with Laing & Cruickshank where he was an assistant director. In a career change, he moved to City University where he was a professor, head of Department, member of the business school's executive committee and a member of University Senate. He took a leading role in setting up the university's real estate and investment management postgraduate programmes and as a visiting professor at Kingston University he developed a web-enhanced Masters degree. As a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Piers was a committee member of the RICS: City Branch, GP and P&D Research and European Committees. He served as a faculty member of: the Cambridge International Land Institute, the Investment Property Forum, the College of Estate Management, and NACORE's Master of Corporate Real Estate. He has been a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and is widely published; his works include: UK and US journal articles, jointly authored academic textbooks and professional publications on property, pension funds and indirect investment. He served on two HEFCE University Research Assessment Exercise Panels. He was chairman of Suffolk Assured Homes plc. As an academic, investment analyst and consultant he has worked with leading UK and international companies, and his employment has taken him to over twenty countries around the world. He is now a full-time writer. He is married, with three daughters, and lives in Suffolk by the River Deben.