S. Michael Giliberto currently consults with investment management firms and produces the Giliberto-Levy Indexes, which measures the investment performance of private-market real estate debt instruments. He has consulted for several major real estate investment management firms and serves on the Real Estate Advisory Committee for the New York State Common Retirement Fund. He previously served as Director of Portfolio Strategy and Senior Portfolio Manager at J.P. Morgan Asset Management from 2002 to 2010, and before that, he served as the head of Real Estate Research at J.P. Morgan Investment Management from 1996 to 2002. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Mr. Giliberto worked at Lehman Brothers, Inc. in the Fixed-Income Research department from 1993 to 1996 and at Salomon Brothers Inc. in the Real Estate Research department from 1989 to 1992. Before his career in the financial services industry, Mr. Giliberto was a professor in the Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Giliberto has authored multiple publications about real estate investment performance, asset allocation and capital markets, and he was an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business from 2007 to 2023. In the past, he has served on the Real Estate Information Standards Board, and the board of directors of the Pension Real Estate Association, where he served as Treasurer and Chairman and was awarded the 1996 Graaskamp Award for research excellence. Mr. Giliberto received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, a master’s degree in business economics from the University of Hartford, and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Washington.
Mr. Giliberto was selected to serve as a member of our board based on his extensive experience in real estate investment and finance.