Edward K. Aldag, Jr. 

Chairman, President and CEO - Medical Properties Trust, Inc. | Member since 2018

Ed Aldag launched Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (NYSE: MPW) in 2003 as the nation's only real estate investment trust (REIT) focusing exclusively on hospitals. Today, Medical Properties Trust is the established leader in the hospital REIT sector, with approximately 450 facilities across the United States, Western Europe, South America and Australia. 

Under Ed's leadership, MPT’s assets have grown to nearly $25 billion and the company has become the second largest U.S.-based owner of hospital beds, with more than 46,000 in its portfolio. 

A native of Eufaula, Ala., Ed is a graduate of the University of Alabama, where he majored in finance and made the most important contact of his life – his wife, Melinda, to whom he has been happily married for 30+ years. Their life together is centered around three grown children, and on philanthropic work across the broader community. 

Ed serves on the board of Children’s of Alabama, one of the nation’s leading hospitals for children, and as a director and member of the investment committee of the Alabama Children’s Hospital Foundation. He also serves as a board member for Mitchell’s Place, benefitting children with autism; the Birmingham Education Foundation, dedicated to increasing the number of students in Birmingham City Schools that are on the path to college, career and life readiness; the American Sports Medicine Institute, which works to understand, prevent and treat sports-related injuries; and as a member of the executive committee of the Birmingham Business Alliance.

He is a guest lecturer at both the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and part of the UAB President’s Campaign Leadership Cabinet for a $1 billion campaign. In November 2017, he was selected as a member of the national advisory board of governors for NAREIT (the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts).

Edward Aldag was appointed Board member of Infracore in May 2019 and Board member of Générale-Beaulieu Immobilière SA in June 2020.