I am a retail property management consultant and lecturer, with over twenty years international experience of managing mixed use retail and leisure properties. I have directed the pre-opening management set-up and/or centre managed six major schemes in the UK and Europe;• Grafton Centre, Cambridge (34,652sq.m): www.graftoncentre.co.uk • Broad Street Plaza, Halifax (28,000sq.m): www.broad-street-plaza.co.uk• Zlote Tarasy, Warsaw (74,000sqm): www.zlotetarasy.pl • The O2 Centre, London (25,000sqm): www.o2centre.co.uk • The Mall of Cyprus (27,000sq.m): www.themallofcyprus.com • Mall Varna, Bulgaria 29,600sq.m): www.mallvarna.bg I have a track record of implement effective strategies to drive their commercial performance.I have long-term managed malls for a number managing agents (including Cushman & Wakefield and CBRE). I also established a shopping centre consultancy business in 2007 providing management set-up support, audit, advice and training for retail property clients. I have operated in Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Syria, Turkey and the UK. I currently lecture in MENASpecialities: Retail property management, mall design consultancy, management set-ups, operational procedural documentation & strategies, staff training, crisis-management, strategic & operational management of soft FM, shopping centre management.