Duncan Lyster is Head of Residential at Irish Life Investment Managers. He is responsible for the development and management of the Irish Residential Property Fund. IRPF was Ireland’s first open ended residential property fund offering investors access to an institutionally operated vehicle that buys and manages income producing residential property in Ireland. He previously held the position of Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets at Ireland’s largest independent property agency firm. He worked with CBRE in its City of London office in the UK. He is a general practice Chartered Surveyor with over 29 years’ experience in residential and commercial property in Dublin and London. Lyster holds a BSc (Estate Management) from the University of Greenwich, London and a Diploma in Auctioneering, Valuation & Estate Agency from the Dublin Institute of Technology. He is a member of Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Lyster completed a Professional Services executive education course at the Harvard Business School.