Knight Frank recruits property and asset management ESG leader

Knight Frank has recruited Amira Hashemi for the new role of UK ESG lead for property and asset management. 

Hashemi joins from the UK arm of Singaporean real estate company Frasers Property and previously spent four years with its Australian business.  

In her new role, she will lead ESG strategy and implementation across Knight Frank’s asset management, property management and facilities management businesses across the UK.

Michael Lewis, head of property and asset management at Knight Frank, said: “We have ambitious plans to grow our business across the UK and ensuring that our approach to ESG is market leading is essential. As a business we are committed to playing a leading role in decarbonising commercial real estate and one of the areas we can have most impact is through the assets we manage.”