Dupuy joins from BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Services where he spent the past five years as managing director. Prior to this, he spent nine years with AXA Real Estate Investment Managers.

"He brings over 17 years’ accomplished strategic real estate experience from across all disciplines, focused on generating performance for clients. His extensive knowledge of the pan-European real estate markets has been gained through a number of different market cycles and at high profile real estate firms," added Andy Rofe, managing director of IRE.

In his new role, Dupuy will work with the asset management team and partners across Europe to add value to new and existing investments throughout the market, building and lease life-cycles.

Invesco Real Estate is an independent investment manager, which has transacted and advanced due diligence on over €1.0 billion of deals in 2014 so far.