About
Professional Summary
Damian Harrington is a Director and Head of Research for both Global Capital Markets and EMEA at Colliers. He has over 20 years of experience in the real estate industry living and working from various locations across EMEA including London, Dubai, Prague, Helsinki and Amsterdam. Damian is responsible for producing research for internal and external clients. His expertise helps to provide clients with global capital market trends and analysis, and connects them with strategic and actionable insights, such as the changing nature of global capital and the impact on global capital flows. Damian has produced numerous research papers and generated analysis of markets across all asset types - from residential to offices, retail to logistics and hotels to niche sectors such as life sciences, air cargo and data centres. Damian is a member of the EMEA location strategy team and a key member of Colliers ESG focus group. He speaks regularly at internal global conferences, external industry events hosted by GRI, ULI and other key industry bodies, plus key annual events such as MIPIM and EXPO REAL.
Damian holds a Masters degree in European Property Development and Planning from University College London, a BPI Bachelor of Planning from the University of Amsterdam and a BA (Hons) in Town and Country Planning from Manchester University. He is also a qualified surveyor, holding an MRICS with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
Accomplishments
Damian has achieved most of the things he set out to do - working and studying abroad and across a range of real estate sectors, helping to develop a deep knowledge and experience of different markets. Damian is well educated and is a qualified surveyor and planner with a strong understanding of how the business works, enabling him to provide advice on issues that matter. Damian alos ran his own business consultancy prior to joining Colliers, so he knows how to prioritise and deploy time and resources effectively.
Education
MSc European Property Development and Planning, University College London
BPl Bachelor of Planning, University of Amsterdam/University of Manchester
Ba (Hons) Town and Country Planning, University of Manchester
Memberships & Involvements
RICS, RTPI, SPR, ULI
Clients
ARK Data Centres, AT Kearney, Bloomberg, CTP, Carcoustics, Farasis, Faurecia, Garmin, Heathside, Hollister, Ideal Automotive, IMOE, Immofinanz, Koch Industries, Lingnang, Macquarie, Mapletree, Molex, Oaktreee, Phillips-Medisize, Sitel, Skanska, TI Automotive, Varroc, Verdion, Wuest & Partners,
Testimonials
Feedback on Gen Y Reports:
"Many thanks for the report. I rarely read the full reports from agents, but I read this one with care and focus. Certainly a very interesting, thought provoking piece of research. Especially for traditional companies such as GE (Capital)."
"Thanks for the note - a very interesting paper and has already opened conversations with clients! Having circulated copy of the report to some of my key occupier and developer clients, have already had very positive feedback (Michael Donohoe, Head of Business Space, Colliers International - Ireland)"
“Thank you for this, it certainly made for an interesting read and I definitely agree with the points on “New Challenges”, “Freedom and Feedback” and “Companionship at Work”. I’ve observed each of these on many occasions and it’s reassuring to see it’s generational and not specific to our industry (Technology Client).”
"This is a great article – well done! My background is in management consulting at McKinsey and I cannot stress enough to our brokers the importance of talent management approach in our client service." (Maria Melo, VP, Colliers International California)
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Elias is Head of Location Strategy, Occupier Services - EMEA..
He has advised over 650 companies on where to locate new operations and where to consolidate existing ones.
In doing so he brings to bear a deep understanding of business operations, and of how to tune them to local operating conditions.
Having conducted field work in 47 countries and over 250 cities globally, he applies this expertise across all business functions: headquarters, manufacturing, R&D, warehousing and distribution, and shared services.
Elias expertise ranges from location strategy through tactics to project implementation. He developed robust data-models but holds that experience is key to deliver recommendations that work.
He regularly speaks and publishes on location strategy, emerging markets, business resilience and corporate deployment trends.
Elias teaches International Business Strategy at one of Europe’s top-10 universities, sits on the board of various international business associations and is member of the Site Selectors Guild.
Zuzana has over 10 years of experience in the commercial real estate sector. Her strength lies in real estate portfolio analysis and optimization, transaction management, financial modelling, process development and performance management. Zuzana is in charge of identifying and delivering real estate portfolio optimization strategies.
Zuzana advised on numerous lease acquisitions, renegotiations and lease terminations, asset acquisitions and disposals and other types of transactions in different parts of EMEA and has led the development of processes and systems to deliver consistent service delivery across the region. Zuzana’s expertise lies in overseeing the performance of local experts to ensure seamless delivery to her clients, providing strategic and best practice portfolio advice and day-to-day transaction management. During 2014, Zuzana was also seconded to General Motors Real Estate team.
Since September 2020, Zuzana is part of Complex and Emerging Market Solutions group where she specializes in high quality end to end solutions in challenging and frontier geographies across Africa, the Middle East and Eurasia.