Werner Knips is a partner emeritus in Heidrick & Struggles’ Düsseldorf office and a member of the global Financial Services and CEO & Board of Directors practices focusing on financial services, real estate, and private equity sectors as well as supervisory and advisory board roles. He advises international and domestic clients on filling leadership gaps in front of market changes with regards to stakeholder value, sustainability, digitalization, and supports his colleagues to win business at the highest level. Werner has been with Heidrick & Struggles in Düsseldorf for more than 30 years, where he helped build and has led the global Real Estate Practice. Together with Heidrick Consulting colleagues, he developed a consulting program for the introduction and implementation of a sustainable, value-driven corporate governance approach. During his career, he has successfully completed more than 1,000 search mandates – with more than 700 in the real estate sector and more than 100 for private equity clients – including chairman, NXDs, CEOs, COOs, CFOs, partners, principles, and VPs as well as specialists like senior asset managers, senior developers, corporate real estate managers, and so forth.