CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Verna Kuo
Director, Real Estate & Natural Resources Investments, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Verna Kuo is the Director of Real Estate and Natural Resources Investments at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She is responsible for portfolio construction, fund selection and relationship management across the Foundation's global real estate and natural resources portfolio. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2006, she spent six years at the Stanford Management Company where she invested and managed the University endowment's real estate and natural resources portfolio. Ms. Kuo currently serves on 28 fund Advisory Boards, has twice served as Co-Chair of the Pension Real Estate Association Conference (2002 and 2013) and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Institutional Real Estate Letter. She currently serves on the Executive Board of the Teacher Salary Project. Ms. Kuo holds a B.A. degree and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
