ING Real Estate Investment Management (ING REIM) has appointed Bruno Cohen as chief investment officer (CIO) France. From its Paris office manheaded by Silvio Estienne, ING REIM France manages a portfolio of real estate assets in the retail, offices, residential and logistic sectors with a total value of approximately EUR 1.7 bn.

Cohen will be in charge of the transaction team and of the monitoring of the asset management of the French portfolio.

Cohen (47) has a career spanning over twenty years in real estate investment, asset management, development and fund management. He holds a Civil Engineering degree from ESTP as well as an MBA from INSEAD (1990), and he is member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).