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    Presidential team are the most senior team within RICS acting as leading ambassadors for RICS. They work in partnership with the CEO to shape the RICS’ thought leadership agenda to address critical issues in the built and natural environment, from urbanisation to technology and climate change. They are elected by Governing Council for one-year terms, first as Senior Vice President, then as President Elect, progressing to President. They sit as members of Governing Council throughout their terms, where they participate in setting RICS’ strategy and providing oversight. The President chairs Governing Council which is RICS’ governing body.

    Meet the Presidential team

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    Tina Paillet FRICS

    President, RICS

    Tina is President of RICS and works within the Presidential Team to advance strategic goals and create positive impact, particularly in the field of sustainability. Tina has served as the Chair of the RICS Europe Board from 2017 to 2021. Tina is CEO & Co-Founder of Circotrade – a technologically enabled trading platform designed to facilitate and unlock the future value of your building’s materials. Circotrade uses the power of finance to combat the climate change impacts of the built environment through decarbonization and the circular economy. As an international real estate executive, Tina has over 25 years of experience including 12 years developing and managing one of the world’s largest real estate asset managers (32Bn€ AuM). She has overseen global asset management, major development projects and sustainable investing across Europe, the UK and globally. Tina has also been leading green transformation in the sector by launching Europe’s first Green Bonds and developing decarbonization strategies in line with “Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance” commitments.

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    Justin Sullivan FRICS

    President Elect, RICS

    Justin is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with more than 35 years of experience and standing in the construction industry since founding Adair in 1994. Justin is immediate past Chair of the Construction Industry Council (CIC), a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and immediate past Chair of the International Cost Management Standards Coalition (ICMS). Justin is also an Independent Member of Council for Buckinghamshire New University. Justin is also RICS representative on the CEEC council. Justin specialises in contract management, project management, quantity surveying and project monitoring for construction and infrastructure projects in the UK and internationally, including Gibraltar, Sudan, the Cayman Islands and the UAE. He acts as an expert witness for construction claims, adjudications, arbitrations and civil proceedings in court and has given evidence in the UK Technology and Construction Court on a number of occasions and as recently as January 2023. He has acted as expert and single joint expert on over 200 matters and is renowned for his skill and expertise in construction disputes, including giving oral evidence in court and in arbitration proceedings. Justin has chaired and spoken at many conferences for the RICS, CEEC and the CIC and is skilled at organising and facilitating networking clubs and events.

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    Nicholas Maclean FRICS

    Senior Vice President, RICS

    Nicholas Maclean is a Fellow member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and is currently RICS Senior Vice-President. He has previously served as a member then interim Chair of the RICS Governing Council, and as an interim RICS Board Member and Chair of RICS Membership Services Committee. Prior to taking up his previous position on Governing Council he was a member, then Chair, of the RICS MENA Market Advisory Panel. Nicholas Maclean lives and works in the United Arab Emirates and is Co-Chairman & Managing Director of CBRE Middle East Region which he established in 2005. This Region encompasses his firm’s operations across Middle East and North Africa. He serves as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce. He is a GlobalScot; the Scottish Government’s Trade & Investment Envoy to the United Arab Emirates; and received the First Ministers award for Services to Trade and Bilateral Relations in 2023. He is also a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and whilst in the UK, a member of the Institute of Revenue, Rating & Valuation and is the former chair of the Lillian Sutton (SoC) Charitable Trust. He holds the Reserve Decoration and in 2017 was named by Arabian Business as one of the 100 most influential people in the UAE and in 2023 as one of the Top 100 Executives in UAE.