Maria Wiedner is the Founder and CEO of Cambridge Finance, a company she founded in 2016 to provide real estate financial modelling courses and consultancy. She is also the Founder and CEO of Real Estate Women, CIC, an organisation which advocates for equality and inclusion and the fair representation of women and minorities in senior positions. In addition, Maria serves as a Real Estate Finance Specialist and APC Assessor for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Maria currently teaches Real Estate Modelling in the Global Masters in Real Estate Development program at IE School of Architecture and Design in Madrid, Spain, and is a D&I Editorial Advisor for Property Week, the leading news magazine in the commercial and residential property market in the United Kingdom. Maria's career has been built upon highly quantitative roles, such as property derivatives, renewable energy financial analysis, and listed real estate investment trusts (REITs) research. She is a graduate of Fundacao Getulio Vargas in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she received a BA in Business Administration, an alumna of University of Cambridge (MPhil), a CFA Charterholder, and a member of the RICS (MRICS). Having lived in Brazil (her home country), Finland, Austria, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, Maria speaks Portuguese, Spanish, German, Finnish, and English.
