About Melina Cordero

Melina Cordero is Americas Head of Retail Research for CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services company. She analyzes the influence of industry and consumer trends on retail real estate for clients and for CBRE’s more than 500 retail professionals in the Americas. Ms. Cordero, based in Washington, D.C., joined CBRE in 2016 after working for three years for U.K.-based data and consumer-analytics company Path Intelligence. Earlier in her career, she worked as a global industry analyst tracking retail and consumer-goods industries for Euromonitor International in London and for the U.K. Parliament in urban planning and business policy research. Ms. Cordero wrote her Master’s thesis on shopping center development and consumer behavior in Brazilian cities. Follow her on Twitter at @melinascordero.