Sabina Kalyan is Global Chief Economist and Global Head of Real Assets Research for CBRE Global Investors with full operational responsibility for the firm’s strategy and research team and a specific role in selecting the economic scenarios and macro risk assessments that power the firm’s real estate forecasts. Ms. Kalyan is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, Global Investment Committee, and European and Global Leadership Teams.

Previously, Ms. Kalyan served as Head of Research for the firm’s EMEA region and the global quantitative team.

Ms. Kalyan joined the industry in 2001 and started working for CBRE Global Investors in 2008. Ms. Kalyan was previously Chief Economist at IPD. Prior to IPD, she worked for Capital Economics, where she developed their UK residential and commercial property market analysis and forecasting service.

Ms. Kalyan studied economics at Lincoln College, Oxford University and is a member of the Society of Business Economists, the Society of Property Researchers and the Investment Property Forum. She is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Mario Abbadessa began his career at Hines in 2010 and in 2016 he was appointed Managing Director & Country Head of Hines Italy, becoming responsible for all Hines Group activities in Italy. In March 2019, at the age of 35, he was named Senior Managing Director of Hines Italy by the Hines Global Board, becoming the youngest manager in the Group to have accomplished this achievement. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Bocconi University and a Master of Science in Finance with electives in Real Estate Finance from the University of Amsterdam. Since 2016 and under his guidance, Hines has completed real estate investments worth more than 4 billion euro in Milan, Florence and Bologna’s area, setting up a team of over 50 professionals.

Paolo Massimiliano Bottelli is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kryalos SGR, an independent Real Estate AIFMD Regulated Fund Management Firm based in Milan, with a team of 83 professionals. Kryalos is one of the most active players in the Italian real estate market and actually manages EUR8.3 billion of assets.

Before founding Kryalos, Paolo worked for 18 years in Milan listed Pirelli Real Estate, where he joined in 1994. During his career he mainly focused on advisory and management services in the Italian market and from 2009 he has been responsible for the global investment and asset management business of the Group, working from the Hamburg headquarter. Prior to Pirelli, Paolo worked in Knight Frank, in Deutsche Bank Leasing and has also served as Board Member of the department store la Rinascente.

Paolo is Member of the Board of Directors of Assoimmobiliare since 2017. In December 2018 Paolo was honored with the title of Cavaliere dell’Ordine “al Merito della Repubblica Italiana” by the President of the Italian Republic

Emanuele Caniggia, CEO of DeA Capital Real Estate SGR S.p.A., is 55 years old, married, has two children and lives in Rome.

During his business career, he has established numerous companies and held various positions, starting from 1988 at Ar.Co.Graph. In 1996, he founded Abaco Servizi, a company operating in the real estate services sector. With acquisitions in Italy and abroad, this contributed to the creation of Abaco Team, a group leader in real estate services.

In 2006, he sold 65% of Abaco Team to Gabetti Property Solutions. He continued to be CEO until 2009, when he sold the remaining 35% of the Company, thus becoming a shareholder of Gabetti, which he left in August 2012. From 2009 to 2012, he was a member of the Boards of Directors of Gabetti Property Solutions, Gabetti Agency, Patrigest and TreeRe.

In October 2012, he set up Innovation Real Estate, formerly First Atlantic RE.

It was acquired with DeA Capital S.p.A. of which he was the CEO until 2014.

Since 28 April 2014, Emanuele Caniggia has been CEO of the Asset Management Company DeA Capital Real Estate SGR S.p.A.

The Company has about 11,4 billion assets under management and its main shareholder is the De Agostini Group.

Emanuele Caniggia is a member of the Scientific Committee of EIRE, Quotidiano Immobiliare and the Governing Council of Assoimmobiliare. He is Chair of the Real Estate Services Committee of the Association.

Having worked at Il Sole 24 Ore since 2004, Paola Dezza is now responsible for the group's Real Estate website and the real estate newsletter. She joined the Finance editorial office two years ago, and she is the leading writer at the newspaper on real estate issues.

She writes about a wide range of real estate market issues; from the residential market to the world of real estate professionals, to news concerning Italian and foreign real estate companies and large projects.

Born in Milan, Paola has lived abroad for a long time: in the US (Arizona), in Iran (Tehran) and in France (Paris). She graduated in Economics and Commerce with an economic-political orientation, and she attended a marketing course, a master in technical analysis and the "Real estate valuation and financing" course at SDA Bocconi School of Management.

Before 2004 she worked in finance for the Stock Exchange and Finance and for Bloomberg Investimenti, in personal finance for Panorama and for Il Corriere della Sera. Between 2001 and 2003 she provided daily updates from the Italian Stock Exchange for Radio Capital.

She is fluent in English and French.

She also writes about lifestyle, luxury tourism and fashion.

Dino began his career at Mediobanca in 1999 at Structured Finance Division with focus on ABS and leveraged finance trades, from 2005 has moved to the M&A division joining the Real Estate Team which leads since 2013. He is also responsible in Mediobanca for certain Large Corp. to coordinate and cross sell the full product spectrum . Dino is considered among the most experienced and trusted banker in the Italian real estate market with a long track-record of successful transactions arranged over 20 year of career. Recently under his guidance, Mediobanca has promoted, arranged and executed- first in Italy - several club deals for its Private Banking Division giving an exclusive access to UHNWI to income-producing Trophy Asset such as “Cordusio Palazzo Broggi” with a long term horizon and capital preservation approach. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Bocconi University.

Anne joined PATRIZIA in April 2017 as a Member of the Board and Chief Investment Officer.

PATRIZIA has been active as an investment manager in the real estate market across Europe for more than 37 years and manages c. EUR 47 billion of real estate assets, primarily as an investment manager for insurance companies, pension fund institutions, sovereign funds, savings and cooperative banks and as co-investor. For further information please visit: www.patrizia.ag

Prior to PATRIZIA she was Global Head of Asset Management and Transactions at AXA Investment Managers, Real Assets, a member of the Management Board and a member of the Global Investment Committee.

Prior to AXA she carried out leading management roles at a number of internationally recognised businesses, including MD of Real Estate at Lazard, Head of Real Estate at Cambridge Place Investment Management and International Director in Jones Lang LaSalle’s Capital Markets business.

Anne is a Global Board Member and a Governing Trustee of the Urban Land Institute.

Elvira is the Global Head of Real Estate and Infrastructure Sectors at ING.

Since joining in 2001, she has held several positions with the bank including  the Energy Sector, where Elvira was responsible for origination and structuring of project financings in Europe, Russia and CIS. In 2012, Elvira joined the Global Credit Restructuring team, where she led workouts of structured problem loans. Prior to taking up her current role, Elvira was responsible for establishing and developing the Commodities business of ING in the United States.

Elvira holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Denver University and a Master of International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Mr. Longo joined Bain Capital Credit in 2013. He is a Managing Director in the Non-Performing Loan and Real Estate team that is part of Distressed and Special Situations and is based in Bain Capital Credit’s London office. Previously, Mr. Longo was a Principal in the European Principal Finance Fund at Apollo investing in non-performing loan portfolios and real estate. Mr. Longo started his career in the Investment Banking group at Goldman Sachs. Mr. Longo received an M.Eng. from the University of Cambridge.

Giuseppe is responsible for developing the strategy for Savills Investment Management’s European and Middle East platform covering new business as well as the management of existing funds.

Previously he held the role of CEO Europe and before that CEO of the Italian branch of Savills IM.

Giuseppe has 30 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience having worked at SBC Warburg, ABN AMRO Corporate Finance and Babcock & Brown. Most recently he was founding partner and responsible for M&A of Hideal Partners, a MBO of the European infrastructure and RE businesses of B&B.

Andrea is a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Investments – Europe at CPPIB.  In this role Andrea is responsible for the European real estate investment program, oversees the Indian real estate program and is part of the real estate senior leadership team.  Prior to joining CPPIB, Andrea was the European Chief Investment Officer of AREA Property Partners, an international real estate private equity firm now part of Ares Management, and previously he worked at Merrill Lynch in New York and London.  He holds an MBA from Insead and a BS in International Economics from the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University.

Andrea is currently Head of Continental Europe of Lendlease, with a particular focus on large-scale urban regeneration schemes. As part of this activity Andrea is leading initiatives to explore innovative ways of delivering sustainable urban regeneration, including how to tackle some of the biggest challenges cities are facing such as the provision of social infrastructure.

Andrea has over 20 years of experience in the infrastructure and property industry in international markets.

He joined BLL as Senior Project Manager in 2004 with responsibilities over a PPP hospital project, the start-up of over EUR1.5 billion urban regeneration project in Milan and a large PPP scheme of over EUR5 billion in Montecarlo.

In 2007 he was appointed Country Manager and since then worked to reposition the business in the contracting and PPP sector.

In 2012 he took the role of Executive General Manager for the CEMEA region overlooking the restructuring of the business in the Region with over 18 countries.

In 2014 he joined the Regional Board in EUROPE in London and become a member of the Regional Investment Committee.

Andrea è attualmente Head of Continental Europe di Lendlease, con particolare attenzione ai progetti di rigenerazione urbana su larga scala. Nell'ambito di questa attività Andrea sta conducendo iniziative per esplorare modi innovativi per realizzare una rigenerazione urbana sostenibile, compreso il modo di affrontare alcune delle più grandi sfide che le città stanno affrontando, come l'offerta di infrastrutture sociali.

Andrea ha oltre 20 anni di esperienza nel settore delle infrastrutture e dell'immobiliare nei mercati internazionali.

È entrato in BLL come Senior Project Manager nel 2004 con responsabilità su un progetto ospedaliero in PPP, l'avvio di un progetto di rigenerazione urbana di oltre 1,5 miliardi di euro a Milano e un grande progetto in PPP di oltre 5 miliardi di euro a Montecarlo.

Nel 2007 è stato nominato Country Manager e da allora ha lavorato per riposizionare il business nel settore del contracting e del PPP.

Nel 2012 ha assunto il ruolo di Executive General Manager per la regione CEMEA che si dedica alla ristrutturazione del business nella Regione con oltre 18 paesi.

Nel 2014 è entrato a far parte del Regional Board in EUROPA a Londra ed è diventato membro del Comitato Regionale per gli Investimenti.

François Trausch is the global Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer of Allianz Real Estate and a Managing Director at PIMCO. He joined Allianz Real Estate in 2016 and chairs the Management Board and the Executive Committee. He is the Chair and a Voting Member on both the Equity and Debt Investment Committees. François has over 25 years of experience in the Finance and Real Estate sector and was previously CEO of Asia Pacific for GE Capital Real Estate International, also serving as President & CEO for GE Capital Real Estate Japan. Before that, François worked as Development Manager for Tishman Speyer Properties in New York and Berlin and Associate Fixed Income at Goldman Sachs Group in London. François has built a strong reputation in the market and is a thought leader in the industry. He is a regular contributor to real estate media and an engaged moderator and panelist at industry events. He is a ULI Global Trustee and member of the ULI Global Board. François is a graduate of ESCP in Paris and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.