Quoc Anh Do, Associate Professor of Economics, Monash University, Australia
Dr. Quoc-Anh Do is Associate Professor of Economics at Monash University (since 2023). He was recently Visiting Associate Professor at the Ford Center for Global Citizenship, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and before that he was Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Sciences Po (Institute of Political Studies) in Paris, France until August 2021. He is known to many friends and colleagues as “Q.A.”, a nickname originating from the initials of his given name. He obtained his PhD in 2008 from Harvard University’s Department of Economics, and has previously worked at the School of Economics, Singapore Management University.
His research interests span over several applied microeconomic topics, especially in political economics, economics of social networks, development economics, economic history, organizational economics, and corporate governance.
Wen-Chi Liao, Associate Professor of Real Estate and Assistant Dean (UG Academic), the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Wen-Chi Liao is Associate Professor of Real Estate and Assistant Dean (UG Academic) at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. He is also an affiliated Visiting Associate Professor at MIT Center for Real Estate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wen-Chi holds a Ph.D. (Economics) from the University of Minnesota, M.Econ (1st Class Honours) and M.Comm (Finance & IT) from the University of Sydney, and B.A. (Economics) from Soochow University.
Wen-Chi’s research areas include urban economics, real estate economics, housing economics, applied spatial econometrics, economic development, and transportation economics. He publishes in leading urban and real estate journals including Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Urban Studies, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, and Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.
Wen-Chi is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Regional Science, and he serves in the editorial boards of the Journal of Real Estate Research, International Journal of Strategic Property Management, and Journal of Property Research. He received a Red Pen Award for being the most outstanding reviewer of JRER in 2023. Wen-Chi is active in the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA), for which he serves in several committees.
Siqi Zheng, Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability, and Director of MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA & Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Regional Science
Zheng is the STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability at the Center for Real Estate, and Department of Urban Studies and Planning, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is the faculty director of the MIT Center for Real Estate. She established MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab in 2019, and is the director of her Lab. She is also the faculty chair of the MIT Asia Real Estate Initiative. Prof. Zheng is currently the 2nd Vice President of American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, and the former President of the Asian Real Estate Society (2018-2019) (and is on its Board now). She is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Regional Science, and former co-editor of Environmental and Resource Economics (on its Scientific Advisory Board now). She is on the editorial board of Real Estate Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, and Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.
Prof. Zheng’s field of specialization is urban and environmental economics and policy, including climate change and real estate, sustainable urbanization, and urbanization in emerging economies. She published in many peer-reviewed international journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behaviour, and the Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Economic Geography, European Economic Review, Journalnal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Transportation Research Part A, Environment and Planning A, Ecological Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. Dr. Zheng has completed or been undertaking research projects granted or entrusted by the World Bank, Fannie Mae, the MassCPR, MITEI, MIT Portugal, MIT MCSC, the Asian Development Bank, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, among others. She won the MIT Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising in 2022; and Asian Real Estate Academic & Professional (AsREAP) Woman Achievement Award (by the Asian Real Estate Society) in 2023. She received her Ph.D. in urban development and real estate from Tsinghua University in 2005, and did her post-doc research at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Prior to coming to MIT, she was a professor and the director of Hang Lung Center for Real Estate at Tsinghua University, China. Her research website is http://www.siqizheng.com