35TH ANNUAL MEETING JW MARRIOTT CAMELBACK INN · PARADISE VALLEY, AZ · APRIL 9-13, 2019

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I am looking forward tremendously to welcoming you in April to Arizona and the 35th Annual Meeting of the American Real Estate Society. We have a fantastic location for this meeting, I'll come back to that, but for myself, I'd just like to say that it has been an enormous honor to act as Program Chair for an ARES meeting. My first ARES meeting was 21 years ago, the 14th Annual Meeting, held in Monterey, California in April 1998. I had defended my PhD at University College Dublin only a few months before, at the end of 1997 and while I had previously attended some finance conferences, the meeting in Monterey was my first real estate conference. For a young academic coming out of a Finance program, it was my first opportunity to meet researchers, from industry as well as academia, with similar interests. One of my abiding memories of that meeting was a plenary session, a precursor to our Critical Issues Seminar, titled "Darth Vader meets the Ivory Tower", featuring the likes of Glenn Mueller, Jim DeLisle, Terry Grissom and the much missed Marc Louargand. Many of the people I met for the first time in Monterey became mentors as I set off on my career and many of you have become firm friends. While I may have chaired the ERES conference twice, ARES has always been very special to me - in many respects it is the organization I view as home. I know I am not alone in feeling this way. There is something special about this organization, especially the nurturing environment that it has towards young academics.