Global Real Estate Institute

Established since 1998 and founded by Henri Alster, GRI was the abbreviation for Global Real Estate Institute.

With the spirit of a real community, the company started by producing top-level conferences for a senior audience (developer, lenders and investors). Later, with the advent of the Club and the penetration in the Infrastructure sector, the Global Real Estate Institute became simple the GRI Club.

Using the strength of its brand recognition and special relationships in the market the GRI Club become the GRI Group with the launch of Smartus a new event company focused on building knowledge and sharing expertise in emerging markets.

In line with the latest developments in the real estate and infrastructure industry the GRI Group launched two new initiatives: GRI Tech Club and GRI Capital.