Nikos Papapesios, Global Head of Innovation Analytics, Knight Frank

Nikos Papapesios is the Global Head of Innovation Analytics at Knight Frank, an internationally leading real estate consultancy. Nikos leads the firm’s global data science, machine learning, and spatial analytics operations, steering the development of advanced predictive models for international property markets. With a background in quantitative finance, spatial data science, and PropTech analytics, he specializes in transforming complex real estate, demographic, and economic datasets into actionable market intelligence. Nikos collaborates with institutional investors, capital markets teams, and asset managers globally to optimize portfolio allocation, evaluate market risk, and deploy data-first property technology that drives operational resilience and asset performance.