Deborah Harmon is Co-Founder and CEO at Artemis Real Estate Partners, a majority women-owned, U.S. commercial real estate investment management firm. Ms. Harmon is an industry leader and entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience in real estate. Prior to Artemis, Ms. Harmon spent 17 years establishing and leading the principal investing business at JE Robert Companies.

She serves as Chairperson of the Pension Real Estate Association Foundation, is a board member of the Pension Real Estate Association, a key leader and former trustee of the Urban Land Institute, and a member of the Advisory Board of Jasper Ridge Charitable Fund and the Advisory Board of the BlackIvy Group. Ms. Harmon also serves on the Board and Executive Committee for Women for Women International and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. President Barack Obama appointed Harmon to serve as a Commissioner for the White House Fellows program and she previously served on the boards of directors for Forest City Enterprises and Avis Group Holdings, the board of advisors for the School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, and on the boards of Sidwell Friends School, Beauvoir, the National Cathedral Elementary School, and of the National Children’s Research Center.

Ms. Harmon earned a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.