ESG and Real Estate - International practical guide for the real estate and investment cycle

Christiane Conrads, LL.M., is a lawyer and PhD candidate at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Since 2012, she has advised on national and international market participants in the real estate industry on sustainability and ESG matters at the intersection of law, regulation and market implementation.
Until the end of 2025, she was a partner in the Sustainability Services Platform at PwC Germany, where she led the Global Real Estate ESG Practice. In this role, she was responsible for the substantive and strategic steering of national and international ESG projects, with a particular focus on European ESG regulation, sustainable finance, governance, and the implementation of market-based requirements in the real estate industry.
Today, her professional focus lies on the further development and sharpening of ESG approaches in the real estate sector. As part of her PhD research, she is examining the integration of biodiversity requirements into existing real estate assets and their legal, regulatory and practical implementation.

Prof. Dr. Florian Hackelberg is Professor of Real Estate Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. Prior to this, he worked for many years in the Advisory Real Estate division at PwC in Berlin and Shanghai. After studying civil engineering and management in Germany, England and China, he obtained his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin and completed a master's degree in International Relations at the University of Cambridge.

Thomas Veith is a partner at PwC in Frankfurt, leading the global Real Estate sector as well as Real Assets in Germany. He has over 30 years of experience in the real estate industry. After studying economics, he initially initiated real estate funds at a private bank before continuing his career at PwC.