Mary Ludgin is Heitman’s Head of Global Investment Research. She is a partner of the firm and sits on its Global Management and Investment Committees. Mary oversees Heitman’s work in the realm of sustainability and has served as editor of the series on Climate Risk that Heitman authored in collaboration with the Urban Land Institute. The fourth report in that series was released in 2023 and focuses on climate-risk disclosure and how to leverage data to optimize portfolios.

Mary served as a Global Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and as chair of ULI’s Chicago District Council. She previously served as Chair of the Pension Real Estate Association, Chair of the board of ULI’s Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate, President of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries, and President of the Real Estate Research Institute. In 2019, Mary received PREA’s James A. Graaskamp award, which recognizes researchers whose work contributes to the common body of knowledge regarding real estate investment.

Mary holds an AB from Vassar College and an MA and Ph.D. from Northwestern University.