President and Vice-Chancellor shows ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø to the world at MIPIM
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell has spoken at MIPIM, one of the world’s largest property conferences today.
ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø’s President and Vice-Chancellor used her time on the platform in Cannes, France to talk about how ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø is to become .
She also spoke about the exciting opportunities presented to investors by developments such as , the presence of the largest academic clinical partnership in Europe centred around the ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø campus and the focus on within the University.
aims to facilitate business between investors, corporate end-users, local authorities, hospitality professionals, industrial and logistics players and other real estate professionals. In 2014 21,000 people from 93 countries attended.
The ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø delegation also included ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø City Council chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein, Spinningfields’ Mike Ingall and Bruntwood's Chris Oglesby. They were joined by former ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø United player, Gary Neville and Lynda Shillaw, the divisional chief executive for property at ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø Airports Group.
During her speech, Professor Rothwell also introduced a video which showed the role of science and technology in ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø as the city builds to European City of Science.