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Sam Chandan

Director, NYU Stern Chao-Hon Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance

Clinical Professor, Department of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business

Academic Dean and Silverstein Chair, NYU SPS Schack Institute

Sam Chandan is Director of the Chao-Hon Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business, home to the school’s applied real estate research initiatives, industry and policy engagement, and undergraduate and MBA real estate programs.

Prior to joining Stern in February 2022, he was the Larry & Klara Silverstein Chair and academic dean of the Schack Institute of Real Estate at the NYU School of Professional Studies. He is also founder of Chandan Economics, an economic advisory and data science firm serving the institutional real estate industry, a contributor to Forbes, and host of the Urban Lab on Apple Podcasts.

A Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH), and the Real Estate Research Institute (RERI), and a contributing member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), his multifaceted applied research interests address real estate capital market, urban epidemiology, and the preparedness of global cities and other systemically important urban areas in managing and mitigating novel public health threats.

Prior to founding Chandan Economics, he was the global chief economist at Real Capital Analytics (RCA). During his tenure as chief economist at Reis, now part of Moody’s Analytics, he was part of the executive team that took the company public.

Education

  • PhD, Applied Economics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  • MSc, Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
  • MA, Economics, University of Pennsylvania
  • BSc, Economics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Research areas

  • Real Estate and Urban Economics: Commercial Real Estate Finance, Housing Markets, Real Estate Applications
  • Epidemiology: Urban Epidemiology, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases