Collete English-Dixon

Executive Director, Marshall Bennett Institute & Chair of Real Estate, Heller College of Business, Roosevelt University

Collete English Dixon is Executive Director, Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate and Chair, Real Estate at the Heller College of Business, at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Prior to taking on this role, she was Managing Principal, Libra Investments Group, LLC, a real estate consulting and services firm she founded after leaving her role as Executive Director, Transactions, for PGIM Real Estate (formerly Prudential Real Estate Investors (PREI)), a business unit of Prudential Financial. From January 2008 until June 2016, she was co-leader of PREI’s national investment dispositions program, which is responsible for managing the sale of PREI’s investment properties on behalf of its clients. During that time, she completed the sale of more than $9B in portfolio assets, including hotels, industrial properties, apartments, office buildings, retail and land. English Dixon received the 2008 Conscientious Professional Award given by the Global Diversity Summit. She has also been active as a board member of Hephzibah Children’s Association and the Black Alumni association for her alma mater, Notre Dame.