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Cody Danks Burke is a Professor of Practice and Director of the Baker Program in Real Estate at Cornell University. His teaching focuses on real estate transactions, deal structuring, and equity and debt investing in real estate. In addition to his academic responsibilities, Danks Burke serves as the managing director at the Agnew Company, a West Coast family office that originates, underwrites, and manages the company’s real estate investments. He also acts as a strategic advisor to Velocis, a Dallas-based real estate private equity firm. From 2006 to 2020, he was a senior investment officer at Cornell University Office of Investments, where he managed endowment investments in real estate and natural resources. Prior to joining Cornell, Danks Burke was an associate at the Partnership Fund in New York City, a private debt equity fund, and served as a special assistant to the president of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, acting as press secretary and deputy chief of staff in the Washington, DC office of Congressman David Skaggs and his successor, Senator Mark Udall. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs with a focus on Latin American studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Master of Business Administration from the Cornell SC Johnson Graduate School of Management.
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