Jessica Bell is a managing director of Capital Markets | EMEA at Walker & Dunlop and is based in London, United Kingdom. In this role, she is responsible for sourcing and structuring a range of commercial real estate capital solutions, including senior, mezzanine, and whole loans, bridge loans, loan-on-loan facilities, equity joint ventures, and recapitalizations. She has 20 years of experience across lender, syndicator, and institutional investor roles, with a focus on structuring and executing debt and equity transactions throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Prior to joining Walker & Dunlop, Bell served as a managing director at Artega Capital, a fiduciary real estate capital markets advisory firm. Before that, she was a managing director at KKR, where she was a member of the New York-based capital markets co-investments and partnerships team focused on global real estate. Earlier in her career, she held roles at ING in London and Amsterdam, the Royal Bank of Scotland in London, and Société Générale in Paris and New York.

Bell earned a master’s degree in business with a concentration in quantitative finance from the New York University Stern School of Business.