Karl-Werner Schulte

In 1986 he was appointed Professor of Investment & Finance at the EBS European Business School, located near Frankfurt.

In 1992 the executive part time course in Real Estate became the first course which the RICS Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors accredited in Continental Europe.

He established real estate as a major in the "Diplom-Kaufmann" degree course to become the first course with this specification worldwide which received RICS accreditation.

Karl-Werner Schulte still plays an active role in real estate education and research at IREBS.

He is the Founder and Academic Director of the Center for African Real Estate Research and the co-founder and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the homonymous non-profit Foundation (www.afrer.org) which supports doctoral and master students as well as the development of real estate departments at universities in African countries.