Helena Burstedt

Helena Burstedt is Professor of Real Estate Products in the MRED.

With a MSc in Business Administration from Stockholm School of Economics and L’École des Hautes Études Commerciales (Paris), and a PDP Certification in Real Estate, Development and Hotel Investment from Cornell University, Helena is an assistant professor at the IE Business School since many years. She recently founded EHB Independent Advisors, a real estate consultancy firm focused on the hotel sector.

She is a renowned hotel consultancy expert and recently she was the head of Hospitality in the Transaction Advisory Service line and co-head of the Transaction Real Estate department at EY. Prior to that, she was Head of Hotels, Valuations and Corporate Finance at Knight Frank and Head of Hotels at Jones Lang LaSalle. She has assessed transactions of a worth of more than €1.5bn only in the last couple of years, and during her career she has analysed, valued or transacted more than 60,000 hotel rooms.

She is member of the RICS and WIRES (Women in Real Estate Spain) and she is often requested as speaker and moderator at conferences and round tables.