NEW YORK CITY—Dr. Sam Chandan has been named the new associate dean, clinical professor, and Larry and Klara Silverstein chair in real estate development and investment at NYU School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate. His full-time appointment is effective March 2016.
Chandan is the founder of Chandan Economics, a real estate debt market data and research firm; adjunct associate professor of real estate at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; and partner and global head of strategy at Capri Investment Group, with approximately $3.4 billion of assets under management in the United States and investment platforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and India. In addition, he is the national economist laureate of the Real Estate Lenders Association.
A columnist for GlobeSt.com, Chandan has held advisory and editorial board appointments at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Real Estate Research Institute, the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care, and the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, among others. Prior to founding Chandan Economics, he was chief economist at Reis—where he was part of the management team that took the company public—and global chief economist at Real Capital Analytics.
"As a distinguished scholar and educator with deep professional and policy connections, Sam Chandan is the ideal person to lead the NYUSPS Schack Institute in engaging industry partners, conducting cutting-edge applied research, creating innovative curricula, and attracting exceptional students and faculty members from around the world," says Dennis Di Lorenzo, Harvey J. Stedman dean of the NYU School of Professional Studies.
"The NYUSPS Schack Institute is unmatched in the comprehensiveness of its real estate programs," adds Chandan. "Leveraging the dual advantages of our home in the world's most vital real estate market and NYU's global network, we are poised to expand our role in applied research and in educating the next generation of our industry's leaders."
The industry economist is no stranger to academia. He has served on the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania—where he earned his PhD in applied economics and his Bachelor's of Science in economics—and he previously was a visiting assistant professor in the economics eepartment at Dartmouth College and a doctoral scholar at Princeton University.
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