KB531, 5/F Knowles Building, HKU

Speaker: Prof. Henk Visscher, Housing Quality and Process Innovation, Delft University of Technology THE SPEAKER Henk Visscher is a Professor of Housing Quality and Process Innovation at Delft University of Technology – Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Department of Management in the Built Environment; Director of the Graduate School Architecture and the Built Environment; coordinator of the Summerschool Sustainable Housing from a European Perspective. He is also a scientific director of the Building and Technology Innovation Center. He…

Speaker: Dr. Li Zhiqiang, Ph.D. in Earth System and Geo-information Science, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, CUHK THE SPEAKER Dr. Li is an expert in atmospheric modelling, especially in the high-resolution urban-scale climate simulation. He was a visiting scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) working on urban climate modelling by using the WRF Model (Weather Research and Forecasting Model) combined with GIS (Geographic Information System) technology. Prior to his academic career, he was an entrepreneur with 20 years’…

Speaker: Prof. Robert Z. Aliber, Professor of International Economics and Finance Emeritus of the Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago THE SPEAKER Prof. Aliber is Professor of International Economics and Finance Emeritus of the Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago. He has written extensively about the prices of currencies, international investment flows, banking issues, the multinational firm, international monetary arrangements, and financial crises. He is the author / co-author / co-editor of The Future of the…

Speaker: Dr. Zan Yang, Director of Institute of Real Estate Market and Risk Research of Hang Lung Center for Real Estate at Tsinghua University THE SPEAKER Dr. Zan Yang is an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University, and the Director of Institute of Real Estate Market and Risk Research of Hang Lung Center for Real Estate at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Her current research focuses on housing consumption, corporate behavior and land market. She has published more than 28 papers in peer-review journals.…

Speaker: Prof. Erwin van der Krabben, Professor of Urban Planning and Property Development, Radboud University THE SPEAKER Prof. Erwin van der Krabben is a Professor of Urban Planning and Property Development at the Radboud University.  He is also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Real Estate and Construction and Department of Planning and Urban Design at HKU.  He is a leading international scholar on transit-oriented development, land readjustment, value capture and developer’s obligations etc.  Professionally, Prof. Erwin Van der…

Speaker: Prof. ONG Seow Eng, National University of Singapore THE SPEAKER Seow Eng ONG is Professor of Real Estate at the National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD in Finance and Master in Business from Indiana University and his research interests include Real Estate Investment Trusts, securitized real estate, auctions, housing finance and affordability, and real estate innovations. As a CFA charter holder, Prof. ONG has substantial work experience in investment and portfolio management, derivative analysis and property valuation…

THE SPEAKER Prof. Maggie Hu is currently an Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Finance at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), jointly appointed by the School of Hotel and Tourism Management & Department of Finance. Her main research interests include real estate economics, banking and corporate finance. Her research papers have been presented at several international finance and real estate conferences, and published in top finance and real estate journals such as Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis…

THE SPEAKER Dr. Zhenguo (Len) Lin received his PhD from University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research is mainly focused on pricing illiquidity of private assets, mortgage markets, and housing market dynamics. Dr. Lin was ranked 4th globally for the period of 2013-2017 based on the most recent ranking in real estate research (Saginor 2017, Journal of Real Estate Literature). In 2013, he received the William N. Kinnard Young Scholar Award, an international recognition for making significant contributions in his field.…

THE SPEAKER Prof. Vincent Yao is the AREA Professor of Real Estate, Director of Real Estate Center and Director of the College PhD Program in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta GA, USA. He is also a senior research fellow at Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, a research fellow at Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and holds visiting chair professorship at several universities in China. He received his BA from Renmin University of China and PhD…

Speaker: Prof. Graeme Newell, University of Western Sydney THE SPEAKER Graeme Newell is Professor of Property Investment in the School of Business at the University of Western Sydney. He is actively involved in property research and has strong links to the property industry, both in Australia and internationally. Graeme has published extensively in the leading property journals, as well as receiving numerous research grants from AHURI, APREA, EPRA, API and IPF etc. He has had many PhD completions, as well…

Speaker: Prof. Wendell Pritchett, Presidential Professor of Law and Education, University of Pennsylvania Law School ABSTRACT In the past decade, following the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. New London, the issue of eminent domain (typically called “expropriation” in other countries) has received a great deal of attention among American legal academics, policy makers and the general public.  In this presentation, Prof. Pritchett will examine the historical development of eminent domain in United States law and economic policy…

Speaker: Dr. Ning Wang, The Ronald Coase Institute THE SPEAKER Ning Wang, with B.S. from Beijing University and Ph.D. from University of Chicago, is editor-in-chief of Man and the Economy: the Journal of the Coase Society, Senior Fellow of Ronald Coase Institute and International Director of the Ronald Coase Center for the Study of the Economy at Zhejiang University. In 2012, he co-authored How China Became Capitalist with the late Nobel laureate, Ronald Coase. Dr. Wang has been collecting materials…

Speaker: Dr. Faith Chan, University of Nottingham, UK and Ningbo campuses All are welcome. Light lunch will be provided on first-come-first-served basis.

Speakers: Dr. Jacky Chung, Assistant Professor, Department of Building, National University of Singapore All are welcome. Light lunch will be provided on first-come-first-served basis. Download workshop paper at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2013.05.004 (may require login)

Speakers: Dr. Rita Yi Man Li, Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, Shue Yan University and Chow Sheung Chi, Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong All are welcome. Light lunch will be provided on first-come-first-served basis. Workshop paper for download

Speaker: Dr. Queena Qian, Assistant Professor, OTB Research for the Built Environment, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. All are welcome. Light lunch will be provided on first-come-first-served basis. Workshop paper for download

Speaker: Dr. Paul Anglin, Associate Professor, College of Business and Economics, University of Guelph, Canada. All are welcome. Light lunch will be provided on first-come-first-served basis.

Speaker: Professor Chinmoy Ghosh, Professor and Head of Department of Finance, University of Connecticut All are welcome. Light lunch will be provided on first-come-first-served basis. Workshop paper for download

Speaker: Ms Deng Kuangkuang, Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong All are welcome. Light lunch will be provided on first-come-first-served basis. Workshop paper for download

Speaker: Dr. Victor Li, Assistant Professor, Hang Sang Management College All are welcome.  Light lunch will be provided on first-come-first served basis.  Please register HERE. Workshop paper for download

Speaker: Professor J. Sa-Aadu, University of Iowa Workshop paper for download