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Han Hwee Chin is Senior Vice-President (Research and Strategic Planning) of GIC Real Estate. GIC Real Estate invests outside of Singapore and has teams in nine offices worldwide, managing a well-diversified portfolio in various property sectors. 

At GIC Real Estate, Hwee Chin undertakes property research and monitoring long-term trends of Asia-Pacific property markets. She also manages the design, composition and risk framework of the real estate portfolio, to formulate investment strategies globally across markets and property sectors.

Hwee Chin graduated from the National University of Singapore with a first class honours degree in Real Estate and has a MBA from the University of Western Australia. She started her career with JTC Corporation where she was involved in the leasing, marketing and development of various industrial clusters such as IT, biomedical and chemicals. Thereafter, she joined the Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore) where she was involved in ministerial and policy work, before moving to GIC. 

Greg Hyland is the Head of Capital Markets, Asia Pacific for CBRE. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for all of CBRE’s Capital Markets teams across the region.

He is accountable for the day-to-day management of all Capital Markets businesses and operations including real estate investment sales and debt and structured finance, across North Asia, South East Asia and India, and Pacific. Throughout his career, Greg has positioned himself as one Asia Pacific’s leading Capital Markets professionals and established deep relationships with some of the world’s leading real estate investors. In the past five years, he has advised on more than $10 billion of real estate transactions.

Experience

He has over 18 years of Capital Markets experience specializing in China, Singapore and Australia. Prior to joining CBRE, Greg served as Head of Capital Markets, Singapore for JLL. He also held a variety of executive roles at this firm, including Regional Director of Asia Capital Markets in Singapore and Head of Investment in Shanghai.

Credentials & Education

Greg holds a Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Property Economics) from Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

A veteran in the real estate industry, Terence has more than 31 years of experience in advisory services and principal real estate investment management.

Over the years, he has been involved in more than 150 real estate transactions worth a total of USD10 billion – spanning different real estate sectors across most Asian markets. 

At Colliers International, Terence helms Asia Capital Markets and Investment Services, which is made up of a team of more than 120 senior Investment Services executives across the region.

Prior to joining Colliers, Terence was with Invesco Real Estate Group, where he had held two different roles – he was the Head of China before relocating back to Singapore to be the Head of South East Asia.

Before Invesco acquired the Asia Pacific real estate fund management platform of AIG in January 2011, Terence was the managing director
of AIG Global Real Estate Group, overseeing the real estate businesses in Greater China.

Prior to AIG, he was the head of China Investments with Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), where he was instrumental in setting up and heading the business unit. Earlier in his career, Terence was also the managing director of JLL Singapore before he left to join GIC Real Estate.

Terence is a frequent speaker at several real estate conferences, some of which include ANREV, Private Equity Real Estate (PERE) Asia Summit, China Global Real Estate Institute, Deutsche Bank Access China, Real Estate Investment World, and Vision Insights and Perspectives, among others.