Christian Janssen

Christian is a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Debt for Europe at Nuveen Real Estate (NRE) and is based in London.

Christian joined the organization in 2013 to launch its European Debt Platform. Prior to joining the business, Christian was a fund manager and co-head of commercial real estate lending at Renshaw Bay, where he established and launched its maiden CRE Debt strategy. Before this, Christian also worked at Barclays Capital for seven years where he set up its European CRE lending, securitisation, syndication, and servicing platform. Prior to this, he spent seven years at Morgan Stanley’s Securitised Product Group in New York and London, and First Boston’s Mortgage Financial Engineering and Project Finance Groups in New York.

Christian has over 30 years of experience in structured finance, real estate debt and investment management. Christian graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from Yale University.