Sir John Henry Ritblat is an English property developer. He is honorary president of The British Land Company PLC, an FTSE250 London-based property company in which George Soros's G Soros Realty Investors acquired a stake in 1993.

The University College of Estate Management, formerly the College of Estate Management (CEM) is an independent UK-based higher education institution which provides courses by distance learning for people in the real estate development and construction industries throughout the world. UCEM is also one of eight original members of the Independent Universities Group, made up of universities not funded by the HEFCE. As of 2013, UCEM had educated over 150,000 students.