Christophe Montcerisier

Head of Real Estate Debt at BNP Paribas Asset Management

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Christophe Montcerisier is Head of Real Estate Debt at BNP Paribas Asset Management. Having taken the role in March 2020, he was previously Investment Director, acting as team Deputy Head, since joining the company in early 2019 from Société Générale. Christophe has 31 years of industry experience.

Prior to Société Générale he was Head of Business Development at GE Capital Real Estate in Paris. He was initially responsible for investing a pan-European fund with equity raised from an Asian Sovereign Wealth Fund as well as GE Capital Real Estate. He later launched a debt business in France. He had joined from RBS where he managed the real estate finance team in Paris for almost 8 years (origination and portfolio management) and had a leadership role in real estate equity investments especially in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Benelux and Sweden. Having started his career at Paribas in 1986, he held roles at The Industrial Bank of Japan from 1994 to 1996, restructuring a non-performing loan portfolio, Merrill Lynch from 1996 to 2001 where he financed private equity funds buying performing and non-performing loan portfolios, and Citi from 2001 to 2004, where he played a real estate advisory role for listed property companies as well as large corporates. Christophe graduated from Sciences Po Paris and holds a Masters in Finance from Paris Sorbonne. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and a board member of Institut d’Epargne Immobilière et Foncière (IEIF).