MIPIM Asia Summit 2026

George is the Co-Head of Asia Pacific and is responsible for the investment and asset management strategies at Ivanhoé Cambridge in the region. He is based in Singapore and leads the Ivanhoé Cambridge teams located in Singapore, Shanghai, Mumbai and Sydney, and collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to establish and consolidate strategic partnerships for major projects being developed in the Asia-Pacific region. George has extensive experience in the Asian real estate market. Before joining Ivanhoé Cambridge in 2015, he was the Senior Executive Director and Head of Alternative Investments at Ping An Trust, a subsidiary of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China Ltd., a public company. George holds bachelor’s degrees in commerce and in law and a master’s degree in commerce, specializing in Finance, from University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. George is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and is a Jury Member for the MIPIM Asia Awards.

Collin Lau is the founder and CEO of BEI Group which is an Asian-based global real estate and alternative investment and operating company. BEI has set up two operating platforms in creative stay-work-play and healthcare. BEI has created BEI community a revolutionary concept of real-estate-as-a-service in Beijing and San Francisco. BEI is a founding shareholder and investor of Virtus Medical Group (www.virtusmedical.com) and is an active investor in healthcare business and healthcare related properties. Collin was previously a managing director head of global real estate and head of European private equity at China Investment Corporation. Collin had over 36 years of corporate financial and investment management experience. Before CIC he had been a managing director at Starr International where he was responsible for its private equity and real estate investments in Asia Pacific. Before Starr Collin was a managing director at Baring Private Equity Asia. Prior to that he held a number of managing positions in several leading conglomerates in Hong Kong. Collin holds a Master of Laws degree with distinction in Corporate and Financial Law from the University of Hong Kong. He was voted as the Asia Industry Figure of the Year 2010 by PERE one of the top 50 industry figures by Estate Gazette UK in 2010 and ranked 25th of the top 100 most influential global industry figures by PERE for the last decade (2005-2015) in 2015.