Professor Kwatinetz is the Director of the NYU Urban Lab, where he is also a professor of real estate economics and inclusive economic development. He recently published NYC’s Affordable Housing Crisis in partnership with the AIA-NY and Center for Architecture. He is the founder of the advisory and impact investment firm Q Partners (“Q”). Previously, Kwatinetz was an Executive Vice President for NYC Economic Development Corporation, where he managed their 65M+ real estate portfolio. For EDC, Kwatinetz also ran PortNYC, the third largest US port, including the management of the negotiations, start-up and operations of the $600M+ NYC Ferry, the largest expansion of ferry service in US history. He served as the lead on NYC Mayor de Blasio’s Affordable Real Estate for Artists (AREA) program. As Q, Kwatinetz worked with Austin Mayor Steve Adler to create the Austin Economic Development Corporation. Q worked directly with Mayor Copenhaver of Augusta to found Augusta Regional Collaboration Project, a Georgia public development corporation. Other selected Q clients: the U.S. Department of Energy, NYC Department of Education, Real Capital Analytics, and the City of Shoreline. Kwatinetz is a former economic consultant for Penn Institute for Urban Research under Dr. Susan Wachter. Kwatinetz is the former VP of Economics and Finance at Kinzer Real Estate, supporting the University of Washington, Alaska Airlines and Starbucks Corporation. In 2018, he published Thriving In Place: Supporting Austin’s Cultural Vitality Through Place-Based Economic Development, sponsored by the NEA and City of Austin. Kwatinetz sits on the Urban Land Institute’s National Public/Private Partnership Council and is on the leadership team of ULI’s Curtis Infrastructure Forum. While in Seattle, Kwatinetz was named a Seattle City Artist and was then asked by Mayor Nickels to serve as the founding Vice President of the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, he also co-founded the Seattle Cultural Overlay Distri

As Senior Vice President of Development Operations and Design, Justine oversees the real estate development operations of the Buckingham platform. Justine has a focus on developing a vision, strategy, and team to achieve outstanding and transformative real estate developments. Justine brings over 18 years of international experience in real estate development, project management and product development. Through her career, Justine has completed over 5,000 multifamily units, 2 full-service hotels, and developed new Buckingham branded product lines. Justine’s project portfolio expands through Europe, and the United States and includes net-zero energy buildings (NZEB) in western Germany, renovation of medieval structures in Paris France and completion of high-rise mixed-use buildings in the US. Justine holds a master’s degree in architecture from the National School of Architecture in Versailles France and was a graduate scholar at the University of Illinois. Justine has served as a lecturer and team advisor for the ULI Real Estate Diversity Initiative (REDI) as well as a mentor to the Ball State University team for the NAIOP Real Estate University Challenge.