NEWS & EVENTS

Lynn Lewis

Tuesday, Feb 8, 2022
10:50 am - 12:05 pm
Maxfield Hall 252

YouTube Lecture

Interested CoFES members and Rice University students who are not in 486/686 Market Models and wish to attend the lectures, either virtual or in-person, should email cofes@rice.edu. 

As a candidate for membership on the Board of Directors of publicly-traded U.S. real estate investment trusts (REITs) or international property companies, Lynn Lewis offers 37 years of experience in the financial service industry with the last 25 years focusing on firms that specialize in U.S. REITs and European Property Companies. 

Lewis served as a managing director and member of the Board of Green Street Advisors, an independent, premier provider of REIT research, for 17 years. During this time, she formulated policy, developed strategy and guided the firm’s revenue growth. She opened the firm’s offices in Dallas and London and built successful teams and businesses serving the U.S. REIT and European Property Companies. Throughout her career, she has cultivated extensive personal and professional relationships with CEOs, board members, senior executives, investors and analysts in the real estate industry and REIT sector. 

Early in her career, Lewis was a leader and top producer in sales and trading at Southwest U.S. regional brokerage firms, including Rauscher Pierce Refsnes, Lovett Mitchell Webb & Garrison, and Rotan Mosle. In each, she built businesses focusing on the burgeoning “new REIT” sector, which included IPOs and the explosive expansion of the publicly-traded real estate market from $3 billion to its current $ 1 trillion. 

Lewis is an expert in issues surrounding volatility in the U.S. stock market in general and REIT stocks in particular. She recently participated as one of five industry leaders in a Special Task Force of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT), which documented the correlation between REIT stock volatility and the formation of levered Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and presented its findings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), playing an instrumental role in eliminating proposed new levered ETFs. 

Lewis is an experienced public speaker. She has lectured at Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and Jones School of Business on the volatility of the U.S. stock market and the legislation. She also speaks at the university’s Economic Conference on the relationship between High-Frequency Trading (HFT) and ETFs, and on stock market volatility.
She is a serious student of global economics with a focus on Russia and the Middle East. She aggressively pursues international learning and active adventure travel with recent immersions in China, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Bulgaria, Namibia, Siberia, Iran, Dubai, Oman and India. 

Lewis earned her B.A. in Drama and English from the University of Houston. She possesses Series 7, 24, 55 and 63 licenses. She is also a divemaster, who has dived in all of the world’s major seas and is certified to drive high-performance racing cars. 
Lewis expresses her ongoing passion for the theater, film and the performing arts through board service at the Dallas Film Society and membership on the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival annual fundraising Gala Committee. In addition, she lends her time, expertise and leadership to The Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Dallas), and Volunteers of America regarding prison reform.