Jeffrey D. DeBoer
The Real Estate Roundtable
Jeff DeBoer is the founding President and CEO of The Real Estate Roundtable. The Real Estate Roundtable represents the leadership of the nation’s top 150 privately owned and publicly held real estate ownership development, lending and management firms, as well as the elected leaders of the 16 major national real estate industry trade associations. Collectively, Roundtable members’ portfolios contain over 5 billion square feet of office, retail and industrial properties valued at more than US$1 trillion; over 1.5 million apartment units; and in excess of 1.3 million hotel rooms.
Mr. DeBoer has served as President and CEO of The Real Estate Roundtable since 1997, and through a variety of positions, he has been at the forefront of every major piece of legislation affecting the real estate industry during the last 25 years.
In addition to his position at the Roundtable, Mr. DeBoer serves as Chairman of the Real Estate Industry Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RE-ISAC), an organization dedicated to enhancing the two-way communication between the industry and federal policymakers on matters relating to building security, terrorist threats, and incident reporting. He also serves as Chairman of the National Real Estate Organizations, a coalition of real estate trade associations working together to enhance the coordination of the industry’s overall Washington advocacy efforts. He also served as Co-chairman of the Advisory Board of the RAND Corporation’s Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy and was a founding member of the steering committee of the Coalition to Insure Against Terrorism (CIAT).
Mr. DeBoer has discussed real estate and economic policy issues on FOX News, Bloomberg Television and CNBC, and his editorials have been published in The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Mr. DeBoer was voted a “Top 10 Industry Newsmaker of the Decade” by GlobeSt.com.
He is a member of the Virginia Bar Association and the American Bar Association. A native of Rapid City, South Dakota, Mr. DeBoer earned a law degree from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia and an undergraduate degree from Yankton College in Yankton, South Dakota. Mr. DeBoer and his wife, Joan, and son, Mitchell, live in Alexandria, Virginia.
