Bio
Nori Gerardo Lietz has been a real estate practitioner advising and managing institutional investor capital since she founded Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc. in 1988. She developed its real estate advisory and investment management activities. The firm became the largest real estate advisory firm in the world in terms of client assets. Ms. Gerardo Lietz advised some of the world’s largest institutional real estate investors. Ms. Gerardo Lietz sold PCA to Partners Group, a Swiss based private markets asset manager, in 2007. Until June 2011 she served as the Chief Strategist for private real estate and Chairman of the Private Real Estate Investment Committee of the firm. She then founded Areté Capital, a real estate advisory firm. Ms. Gerardo Lietz began her career as an attorney specializing in SEC and ERISA matters on behalf of pension funds, real estate managers and real estate pension consultants.
Nori Gerardo Lietz holds an AB with honors from Stanford University. She also holds a JD from the UCLA School of Law where she was the Chief Comment Editor for the UCLA Law Review. She is a former Director of the Pension Real Estate Association and the Real Estate Research Institute. Presently, she is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School and at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
In 2005, she was the commencement speaker for the MIT Center for Real Estate. The Private Equity Real Estate Magazine named her one of the 30 most influential industry leaders in 2006, the second most influential real estate person globally in 2007, and one of the 10 most prominent women in real estate in 2010. In 2014 Ms. Gerardo Lietz was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award for the Class of 2014 at the Harvard Business School.