Innovation Dynamics in Real Estate

Tobias Just is Managing Director at the IRE|BS Immobilienakademie and professor for Real Estate at the University of Regensburg. Tobias studied economics in Hamburg and Uppsala (Sweden). In 1997 he graduated and started to work at the University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg. For more than ten years Tobias worked at Deutsche Bank Research, the economics research unit of Deutsche Bank. He headed the units' sector and real estate research team and was a member of Deutsche Bank's group wide Environmental Steering Committee. In summer 2006 Tobias was Research Fellow at the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC. Tobias published more than 100 papers in professional and academic journals and books. Since November 2011 Tobias has been Managing Director at the IRE|BS Immobilienakademie and has a chair for Real Estate at the University of Regensburg. He is President of the German Society of Property Researchers (gif),editor of the ZIÖ - the German Journal of Real Estate Research and a member of the Executive Management Board of the German section of the Urban Land Institute. In 2013 Tobias was elected "Head of the German real estate industry" by leading real estate journalists, and in 2015 he was ranked among the leading German economists by the Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung (FAZ).

Bing Wang is Associate Professor in practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and Co-Director for Real Estate and the Built Environment Master in Design Studies. She is also a faculty Co-Chair for Real Estate Management: Design, Finance and Leadership program, a joint program between the Harvard GSD and Harvard Business School, and a faculty Co-Chair for Advanced Real Estate Development program at the GSD. Her writings and research are published in academic books and journals. She is the author of The Architectural Profession of Modern China (2011), editor of Global Leadership in Real Estate and Design (2015 forthcoming), and co-editor of Prestige Retail Design and Development (2014).

Wolfgang Schäfers has served since 2004 as Full Professor and Head of the Chair of Real Estate Management at the IREBS International Real Estate Business School, one of Europe's leading academic institutions in real estate. As founding Managing Director of IREBS, he played a key role in establishing the MSc Real Estate program. His research focuses on real estate asset pricing, big data analytics, infrastructure investments, and leadership in real estate. He has supervised more than 30 doctoral dissertations and published extensively in leading academic journals and textbooks. Alongside his academic career, he held senior positions at Arthur Andersen, Sal. Oppenheim, and IVG Immobilien, and currently serves on the Supervisory Board of DEKA Immobilien.