Peter has been chief executive of CREFC Europe, a London-based trade association for the real estate finance market, since 2013. CREFC Europe is the meeting place for real estate finance market participants of all kinds, with a mission to promote transparent, liquid, responsible and sustainable real estate debt markets for the long-term benefit of our members, the wider industry and the economy.

The role lenders can play in the climate transition is a long-term area of interest. Peter was part of the EU's EEFIG Energy Efficiency First working group and the UK government’s short-lived Energy Efficiency Taskforce, among other sustainability-related initiatives.

Peter previously spent five years at the British Property Federation, leading its work on tax, financial regulation and capital flows. Earlier, he spent ten years at law firm Freshfields, specialising in the tax aspects of real estate and real estate finance transactions. He read Russian and Italian at Oxford and has a Masters in Soviet studies.