Dr. Vehbi Hariri is the Director of the Valuation and Investment Properties Department of CB Richard Ellis Turkey.  He is responsible for valuation assignments, investment properties and project management.  He worked for some five years as design co-ordinator in the initial stages of the Ciragan Palace project and in the later years he worked on site supervision and organising final as-built drawings for the entire project.

He is trilingual in Turkish, Arabic and English and is a Turkish National. He has a detailed knowledge of property markets and has worked extensively in Turkey, England Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.  He travelled extensively within Europe, UK, Middle East and America.

Having worked with DMI in Switzerland (trade and project finance departments) and in Abu Dhabi at Dar-ul-Amara (UAE) on major housing and office development projects he lectured extensively at the Department of Interior Design at Bilkent University in Ankara in the field of interior architectural design and housing typology's. 

In CB Richard Ellis office in Istanbul, he has been involved in all aspects of research, valuation and investment services.  He has also personally supervised many building projects for such clients as Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Nike, Credit Lyonnais, First Union Bank, etc.