Management Team

Dr Richard Barkham, Grosvenor
Dr Richard Barkham, Group Research Director Grosvenor 70 Grosvenor Street London W1K 3JP 020 7312 6388 richard.barkham@grosvenor.com
As Group Research Director, Richard Barkham has responsibility for leading and coordinating Grosvenor’s global research programme. Alongside its partner Sonae Sierra, Grosvenor is a major shopping centre developer and investor with operating companies in continental Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Grosvenor is active in all areas of retail real estate research from country level retail sales forecasts to the analysis of shopper attitudes in specific local markets. In addition Grosvenor has had a long interest in using scenario analysis for long term business planning. Richard Barkham has a PhD in Economics and is a Chartered Surveyor. For much of his career he was an academic in the Department of Land Management at the University of Reading where he taught valuation, investment appraisal, real estate economics and real estate market research methods. Between 2000 and 2005 he was UK research director for Grosvenor and has worked extensively on Grosvenor’s Liverpool project. Richard is Chair of the IPF CPD Committee, a Director of the National Retail Planning Forum and a member of the BPF research committee. He is married with three children and a member of Oxford Sailing Club.