Bonnie Stone Sellers

Bonnie Stone Sellers (CW’73) is an authority on global real estate markets and the luxury consumer. Ms. Sellers recently co-founded and is Chair of Forbes Global Properties, an international luxury residential marketplace, and plays a key role in melding the immense reach of Forbes with the expertise of the world’s leading real estate brokerages. 

An accomplished 40-year real estate industry veteran, Ms. Sellers is a member of the board of directors of Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE: HOV), a national real estate company involved with the design, construction and sale of homes, where she is a member of the Audit Committee and the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee. She is also the founder of First Chance, an organization that pays the bail of indigent women in Palm Beach County, FL. 

Ms. Sellers’ views on the residential and commercial markets as well as the luxury consumer have been shaped by her roles as Chair of Forbes Global Properties, CEO of Christie’s International Real Estate and before that as a partner and head of real estate at McKinsey & Company. Ms. Sellers’ perspective on the state of the global luxury market has been featured in respected media such as the New York Times, Bloomberg Television and Fox Business News, among many other media. 

Earlier in her career, Ms. Sellers practiced law in the real estate departments of two major New York City law firms, representing clients on sales and acquisitions, leases, construction agreements, joint ventures, urban renewal projects, and financings. 

Ms. Sellers holds a JD from Columbia Law School, an MLA in landscape architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a BA in architecture and landscape architecture from University of Pennsylvania. 

Appointed: 2008