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Senior Administration

Kristina E. Raspe
Associate Senior Vice President, Real Estate and Asset Management

Kristina E. Raspe was appointed associate senior vice president for real estate and asset management in November 2006.

Raspe is responsible for the acquisition and disposition of all university-owned property, the negotiation and management of all university leases and the management of all tenant-occupied properties owned by the university. Her department also oversees real estate lending and subsidies to university faculty and staff, property tax payments, exemptions and appeals, and the management of title to university automobile and seafaring vessels. She and her department work closely with the offices of planned giving and restricted fund accounting to document the acceptance of gifts to the university and manage the disposition of all gifted real estate and gifts-in-kind to USC.

Prior to joining the university, Raspe served as general counsel and senior vice president at Doheny Enterprises, LLC, a real estate investment firm. Before that she was a partner specializing in real estate and land use law at Troy & Gould.

Raspe is a member of the State Bar of California and the American Bar Association. In addition, she is a member of the California Board of Realtors and the Beverly Hills/Greater Los Angeles Board of Realtors. She is a licensed real estate broker.

She served as the president of the Century City Bar Association from 2007 to 2008 and was named one of Southern California’s Top Young Lawyers in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Los Angeles Magazine.

Raspe holds a B.A. in political science from UC Santa Barbara, a J.D. from Loyola School of Law and a master’s degree in construction management from USC.