Raffaella is currently Head of Valuation & Advisory Hotels Italy. She coordinates and supervises valuation and advisory activities of teh dedicated team on single assets, pan-European hotel portfolios and developement sites across Italy on behalf of owners, lenders and developers. Since 2007 Raffaella has been playing different roles at CBRE and has the focused exclusively on Hotels and operational assets since 2011. Prior to joining CBRE, raffaella worked at Savills undertaking marketing research, in Italy and abroad, feasibility studies and consultancy on the development of shopping centres, large scale retail chains and mixed-use schemes including retail and leisure. Raffaella has been a Chartered Surveyor and Registered Valuer since 2011, graduated in 1999 at Università Statale di Milano and attended a course on Corporate Finance and Strategy at LSE and two courses on marketing research and valuation at Bocconi University in Milan. She habitually lectures at Politecnico di Milano (Corso di Laurea Magistrale "Financial Management of real Estate Transactions") and Luzern University (master of Science in real estate). Since November 2023 she has been RICS Italia board member. Raffaella speaks English, German, French and Italian.