NORI GERARDO LIETZ

Nori Gerardo Lietz

Co-Founder, Member of the Private Equity Investment Committee

Nori is a Member of the Praesidium Private Equity Investment Committee. Nori brings over 35 years of investment and advisory experience within private markets, she is recognized as one of the world’s leading figures in Real Estate. Nori was named the “2nd most influential global figure in Real Estate”, as well as “one of the ten most prominent women in the world in Real Estate” by PERE magazine.

Nori is Professor of Private Equity and Real Estate at Harvard Business School and formerly at Stanford Business School.

In 1988, she founded Pension Consulting Alliance (PCA) and became CEO. She grew it to be the world’s largest Real Estate advisory firm. Her clients included several Sovereign Wealth Funds (including the world’s largest, Government Pension Fund of Norway, as well as Korea Investment Corporation and several Gulf SWFs), the United Nations, several public pension funds (including CalPERS and CalSTRS in the USA) and some of the largest private pension funds and insurance companies in the world.

In 2007, she sold PCA to Partners Group, where she was CIO of Partners Group Real Estate and Chairman of the Real Estate Investment Committee, launching and growing the Real Estate program to $5 billion of assets under management.

She graduated from Stanford University and JD from UCLA School of Law.