Martine Combal

Martine Combal is the Executive Director in JLL’s Public Institutions, Government and Education Advisory practice and leads business development. She brings more than two decades of extensive experience in affordable housing, real estate portfolio optimization, public-sector acquisitions and dispositions, and redevelopment. Previously, she served as Deputy Director of Real Estate in the District of Columbia’s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development and as director of the Walter Reed Local Redevelopment Authority, overseeing the redevelopment of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center into a 3.1-million-square-foot mixed-use development with 15 acres of open space. Earlier, she led the District’s Department of Housing and Community Development’s property acquisition and disposition efforts during the 2008 foreclosure crisis.

Ms. Combal holds a Master’s degree in City Planning and a certificate in Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies from Cornell University. She is active in the Urban Land Institute of Washington, DC, and has served on the boards of Everybody Wins DC and the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. 

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