Laura Craft

Ms. Laura Craft is a Global Head of Portfolio Sustainability Strategies at Heitman Real Estate Securities LLC.
She is also an equity owner of the firm.
She leads the firm’s sustainability platform and interacts across business lines and regions to establish systematic approaches to incorporate sustainability into investment decision-making and management of investments with the goal of creating value, reducing risk, and enhancing investment returns.
She is a member of Urban Land Institute (ULI) Greenprint’s Performance Committee and was the co-chair of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) Innovation Affinity Group from 2017-2023.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Craft spent 10 years at LaSalle Investment Management, where she began in LaSalle’s valuation and asset management groups and transitioned to develop the firm’s Global Sustainability Platform.
Her early career experience includes market data coverage at Grubb & Ellis Barkley Fraser, a real estate brokerage company, as well as Building Information Modeling (BIM) research and development at SmartBIM.
Her past industry involvement has included advising ULI Greenprint Center, the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI), and the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) on their reporting frameworks and environmental data platforms.
She received a double BA in Real Estate and Business Management from the University of Georgia.