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.
Dirk Hennig is a transactions partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, focusing on real estate advisory services. He has over 25 years of hands-on consulting and deals experience from serving multinational clients with their real estate investments in Germany. He has worked in PwC offices in Berlin, Düsseldorf and New York. Hennig has a master's degree in Engineering from the University of Dresden, and the title of Expert for International Valuation of Real Estate from European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel. He is a board member of the Federal Association of Publicly Appointed, Sworn and Qualified Experts e.V. (BVS); a member of the German Property Federation (ZIA) working group 'Accounting and Valuation'; and a member of the Tangible Assets Board of the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC). He was a member of the working group of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW) for the publication of the IDW S 10 standard 'Principles for the Valuation of Real Estate'.