Former Mercer RE Head joins Savills IM

International real estate investment manager, Savills Investment Management (Savills IM), has appointed Jennifer Johnstone-Kaiser as a director in the new Sydney office to drive the firm's growth in Australia.

Johnstone-Kaiser joins Savills IM with over 30 years' experience in real estate investment and investment consulting. She was previously head of real estate, Asia Pacific at Mercer for over seven years, advising a number of major Australian and Asian pension funds and wealth management businesses on domestic and global investment strategy, portfolio construction, implementation, due diligence and portfolio monitoring.

Commenting on the appointment, Michael Flynn, CEO of Asia-Pacific at Savills IM said: "Jennifer's experience and depth of knowledge in Australia's real estate investment market and her relationships with institutional and wealth management investors will be invaluable to the growth of Savills IM's business in the Asia-Pacific region as we witness a growing appetite among these segments of investors for international real estate."

Johnstone-Kaiser added: "Savills IM is going through an incredibly exciting period of global growth and I look forward to joining what is a very talented and ambitious team."