Avis Devine is Associate Professor of Real Estate Finance and Sustainability with the Brookfield Centre in Real Estate and Infrastructure and the OMERS & Oxford Real Assets Leadership Institute at the Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto. Prior to her academic career, she was the Assistant Vice President in charge of commercial real estate underwriting and valuation for Dollar Bank, FSB in the US. Devine’s body of research largely focuses on the financial and firm/fund performance impacts of sustainable investment in commercial real estate. Her research has won several research awards and grants, including the 2017 Nick Tyrrell Research Prize in Real Estate Investment.