Julia Wein initially studied Business Administration at the University of Swansea, Wales. She then completed her Master's degree at IRE|BS Regensburg with a focus on property management and development as well as property investment and financing, graduating in 2018.
She has been working in property valuation and real estate consulting since the beginning of 2019 and has also been active as an external doctoral candidate for increasing sustainability in the real estate sector since 2020.
Since January 2023, she has taken over the operational management of the CRREM initiative - the Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor, the leading global initiative for establishing targets for operational carbon emissions for standing real estate investments consistent with the ambitions of the Paris agreement.
CRREM publicly released decarbonization pathways that translate the ambitions of limiting global warming to 1.5°C by the end of the century into regionally- and property-type-specific trajectories against which real estate assets and portfolios can benchmark themselves. Initially an EU project which is now being funded by the Laudes Foundation as well as APG Asset Management, PGGM and Norges Bank Investment Management, and supported by major industry bodies.