Dr. Nils Kok currently holds a position as a visiting scholar at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, and as an associate professor in Finance and Real Estate at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Nils is the recipient of a prestigious three-year grant from the Dutch National Science Foundation for his work on the intersection of sustainability and finance in the real estate sector. He also received awards from the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, Investment & Pensions Europe, the European Social Investment Forum, and the Aareal Bank/European Business School for his research.

Nils Kok is co-founder of the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB); a premier investor-led initiative to assess the environmental and social performance of the global real estate investment industry. He communicates his ideas and findings in the international arena as a frequent speaker on academic and industry conferences and actively shares his expertise through workshops with investment practitioners and policy makers. His research has appeared in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the European Economic Review, Real Estate Economics and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.