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Sara Rutledge is Founder and Chief Economist at SRR Consulting, a real estate research services firm. She has 26 years' experience in macroeconomics and commercial real estate, working with data providers and investors to create and monetize research-oriented applications and products. She was previously a Managing Director and Head of Global market research for StepStone Group, leading the global macroeconomic and private equity real estate performance outlook. Rutledge has also served as the Managing Director of Real Estate products for a data science start-up, Director of Research at the National Council for Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries and a Regional Director of Research at CBRE. She also spent eight years on Invesco Real Estate’s research team, leading US property market forecasts and global macroeconomic views. Rutledge has published Real Estate performance research in Business Economics and co-authored a Real Estate Research Institute-funded paper. She is a Counsellor of Real Estate and an actively involved member of the National Association for Business Economics and Urban Land Institute. She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration with an economics minor and Master of Science in applied economics at the University of North Texas.

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