William Joseph Houlihan

W. Joseph Houlihan is Member of the Managing Committee of the European Property Federation -EPF- (since April 2009) and CEO and Managing Director of Cohen & Steers Europe S.A., a real estate securities business (since 2006).

Cohen & Steers is a manager of high-income equity portfolios, specializing in U.S. REITs, international real estate securities, preferred securities, utilities and large cap value stocks. Headquartered in New York City with offices in Brussels, London, Hong Kong, and Seattle, the firm serves individual and institutional investors through a wide range of open-end mutual funds, closed-end mutual funds and institutional separate accounts.

Place and Date of Birth: Tampa Florida (USA), 1948

Education:
1970: Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Finance from New York University
1977: MBA degree from the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Work Experience:
2000- 2006: with Gerios Rovers, co-founded Houlihan Rovers S.A., a Belgium-based global real estate securities asset manager that was acquired by Cohen & Steers. He shared responsibility for oversight of all fundamental research and investment management activities for LLHR and for developing client relationships with Gerios J.M. Rovers.

1997-1999: was Managing Director at Security Capital Group in Brussels, where the firm provided European real estate securities management services to institutional investors and a mutual fund.

1977-1982/
1985-1996: was an executive vice president and director at GIM Algemeen Vermogensbeheer, a Dutch investment management company, where he specialized in global real estate investments and developed GIM's real estate securities investment process and client base.

1982-1985: was a Managing Director for a Family Office where he was responsible for the Office's global investments.