Rachelle L. Levitt

Ms. Levitt is Executive Vice President of the Global Information Group of the Urban Land Institute and currently oversees the global publishing, awards, information services and virtual activities. She works with staff of 38 people and ULI members on the strategic direction, planning, designing, and implementing the research, awards, and competitions of ULI. These programs include handbooks, topical publications, tool kits, and real estate and urban policy research, whose findings are ultimately published. She serves as ULI’s publisher of its books and magazines--Urban Land and Multifamily Trends. She is presently overseeing the new ULI initiative to create a virtual ULI.

She has been responsible for the research and completion of numerous publications on real estate development and land use planning, including retail, office, industrial, and residential development and such policy issues as smart growth, urban revitalization, and housing. She has personally written on the subjects of city revitalization, research parks, public/private partnerships, commercial development, and real estate trends. Ms. Levitt developed the curriculum for ULI’s real estate workshops and real estate school. Furthermore, she has managed the ULI program that includes comprehensive real estate research, handbook development, publishing, conference program development, real estate financial information, primary data collection, and advisory services to communities and private businesses on solving land use and development problems. Ms. Levitt oversaw ULI’s initiative in aiding the rebuilding of New Orleans.

Ms. Levitt serves on the boards of the Real Estate Associate Program (REAP) and the Cleveland Park Historical Society and is a member of the Alumni Board of the Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative.

Ms. Levitt holds a Bachelor of Arts in Urban & Environmental Studies and Political Science from Case Western Reserve University and a Master of City Planning from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.