Turner & Townsend appoints Head of Real Estate for its UAE business

David Griffiths will lead Turner & Townsend’s UAE real estate segment, supporting business growth, deepening industry presence and driving transformational performance through service excellence and digitally-enabled solutions.

In his new role, David’s key objective is to drive the sustainable growth of Turner & Townsend’s UAE real estate segment across our core service lines with a particular focus on promoting the firm’s best-in-class digital transformation tools, and its unrivalled data-driven data, global end-to-end capability, and its enhanced, sector-focused advisory services.

Commenting on his appointment, David said: “I am honoured to be given the opportunity to lead Turner & Townsend’s Real Estate business here in the UAE. The UAE, driven by the COVID bounce and the successes of events such as Expo 2020, continues to recover and we’re seeing a significant increase in the number of new projects coming to market as a result. While the emergence of Saudi Arabia and numerous giga-projects will continue to have a profound impact on regional and global markets in the years to come, the UAE has been, and will continue to be, pivotal to Turner & Townsend’s growth ambitions in the region.

With the rapid rate of market recovery, new challenges to tackle client objectives such as speed to market, something we have not seen for several years, and how to build greener or more sustainable mean consultants have to innovate and adapt their service delivery to effectively meet those demands. Working alongside Hudson Fountain in his capacity of Regional Head of Real Estate, I look forward to helping drive the business forward and realise its ambitions in the Real Estate sector.”

David will report to the Head of Real Estate, Middle East, Hudson Fountain, working alongside other real estate segment leads to support the business in achieving its Vision 2025 targets.

Commenting on his appointment, Hudson said; “Our clients continue to rely on us for best practice, analytics, and associated digital solutions that add value and help shape how we deliver real estate projects in the region. David has been involved in some of the most complex key real estate projects in the UAE and has built a strong rapport with key stakeholders in the real estate value chain. With his solid industry experience and capability, he is well placed to help achieve the growth levers around our regional real estate strategy and position ourselves as the partner of choice for clients who are shaping the built environment of the modern Middle East.”