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Mr. Brian J.
Levitt, MRECM, LEED AP, is a commercial real estate specialist in sustainable, mixed-use, urban projects with an entertainment focus.
He has managed and developed more than four million square feet of rehab and new product valued at over $500 million.
He has been active in both residential and commercial and is responsible for developing the first LEED Certified shopping center in the United States.
Mr. Levitt actively advises private clients as well as institutions on their portfolios valued at over $2.0 billion in value.
In addition to serving on the boards of numerous charitable non-profit organizations, Mr. Levitt is Vice Chair at Large of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Sustainable Development Council, Co-Chair of the ULI Colorado District Council Sustainable Communities Committee, Member of the Colorado Energy Coalition, Elected Member of the Sustainable Buildings Council of Colorado, and Member of the USGBC Colorado Chapter.
Mr. Levitt is a graduate of the University of Denver, Daniels College of Business, with a Master’s of Science in Real Estate and Construction Management.
He is a United States Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy & Atmospheric Design (LEED) Accredited Professional, and served as a Voting Member of the Committee that created the USGBC Retail Application Guide.

Steven David "Steve" Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist known for his work in the field of crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. Winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, director of the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press until December 2007. He co-authored the best-selling book Freakonomics (2005) and its sequels SuperFreakonomics (2009) and Think Like a Freak (2014). He is a grand-nephew of Robert L. May, the lyricist of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. In 2009, Levitt co-founded TGG Group, a business band philanthropy consulting company. He was chosen as one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006.

Career
Levitt was born in 1967 and attended St. Paul Academy and Summit School, graduated from Harvard University in 1989 with his B.A. in economics summa cum laude, and received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1994. He is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor and the director of The Becker Center on Price Theory at the University of Chicago. In 2003 he won the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years by the American Economic Association to the most promising U.S. economist under the age of 40.
In April 2005 Levitt published his first book, Freakonomics (coauthored with Stephen J. Dubner), which became a New York Times bestseller. Levitt and Dubner also started a blog (). Levitt is an honorary professor at [University].

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Michael Frank Levitt is a member of The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, where he currently works.
Previously, he worked as a Divisional Managing Director at Fintech Group, Inc. and as the Chief Financial Officer & Executive Director at Ellies Holdings Ltd.
from 2011 to 2014.
He obtained an undergraduate degree from the University of the Witwatersrand.