Advisory Boards

Penn IUR is advised by three boards of internationally-renowned urban experts: the Penn IUR Advisory Board, which is comprised of innovative practitioners in such fields as real estate, governance, arts & culture, urban planning, finance, communications, and philanthropy; the Penn IUR Executive Committee, which is composed of deans, faculty, and university administrators from across Penn’s twelve schools; and the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Urban Research eJournal Advisory Board, which provides guidance to the eJournal’s editors, Eugénie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter.

Penn IUR Advisory Board

Mark H. Rosenberg, Principal, MHR Fund Management LLC (Chair)
Alan D. Schnitzer, Chairman and CEO, The Travelers Companies, Inc. (Vice Chair)
P. David Bramble, Managing Partner, MCB Real Estate LLC
Patrick Brett, Managing Director, Citigroup
Kevin G. Chavers, Chairman, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
Alex Chilton, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Municipal Bond Division
Manuel A. Diaz, Senior Partner, Lydecker Diaz, LLC
Paul Farmer, Former Executive Director & CEO, American Planning Association
David Gallo, Founder and Managing Member, Valinor Management, LLC
Renée Glover, Founder, Managing Member and CEO, The Catalyst Group,  LLC
Jacques Gordon, Global Head of Research and Strategy, La Salle Management
Doug Hagan, President, Krytar
Virginia Hepner, Former President & CEO, Woodruff Arts Center
J. Robert Hillier, President, J. Robert Hillier
William Lukashok, Director, Prana Investments
Rachel Kramer, Vice President and Partner, The Richdale Group 
Tom Millon, CEO, Computershare Loan Services
Jessica Morgan, Associate, Lubert-Adler Real Estate Funds
Marc H. Morial, Esq., President & CEO, National Urban League
Fahd Mukhtar, Director, Fatima Group
Melanie Franco Nussdorf, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson
Lawrence Parks, Co-Founder, Forethought Advisors
Egbert Perry, Chairman & CEO, The Integral Group, LLC
Jeffrey R. Poss, Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Deborah Ratner Salzberg, Washington DC Region Chair, Brookfield Properties
Richard P. Richman, Chairman, The Richman Group, Inc.
Jonathan F.P. Rose, President, Jonathan Rose Companies
Robert J.T. Rosenfeld, Principal, JBG Rosenfeld
Molly Rouse-Terlevich, Community Volunteer and Political Fundraiser
Everett K. Sands, CEO & President, Lendistry
David Shapiro, Partner, Corporate Department, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Robert Stewart, Managing Partner, Urban Impact Partners
Michael Tabb, Director, Corporate Real Estate | Americas, Google
Kenneth Tanenbaum, Vice Chairman, Kilmer Van Nostrand Co. Limited
Sameh Naguib Wahba, World Bank’s Regional Director, Sustainable Development in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region 

 

Penn IUR Executive Committee

Wendell Pritchett, James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education, Carey Law School (Co-Chair)
Dawn Bonnell, Vice Provost for Research, Henry Robinson Towne Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, School of Engineering & Applied Science (Co-Chair)
William Burke-White, Deputy Dean and Professor of Law, Law School; Richard Perry Professor and Inaugural Director, Perry World House
Jeffrey Cooper, Vice President, Government and Community Affairs
Dennis Culhane, Professor and Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Social Policy, School of Social Policy and Practice
John DiIulio, Jr., Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society; Director, Robert A. Fox Leadership Program, Department of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences
Gilles Duranton, Dean’s Professor and Chair, Department of Real Estate, Department of Real Estate, The Wharton School
Steven Fluharty, Dean and Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, School of Arts and Sciences
Michael Gibbons, I.W. Burnham II Professor of Investment Banking, The Wharton School
Pam Grossman, Dean and George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education
Mark Alan Hughes, Professor of Practice, Department of City and Regional Planning; Director, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, School of Design
John L. Jackson, Jr., Dean, School of Social Policy and Practice; Richard Perry University Professor of Communication, Africana Studies, and Anthropology
John MacDonald, Chair and Professor of Criminology and Sociology, Department of Criminology, School of Arts and Sciences; Penny and Robert A. Fox Faculty Director, Fels Institute
Frederick Steiner, Dean and Paley Professor, School of Design

 

Penn IUR Urban Research eJournal Advisory Board

Elijah Anderson, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Yale University
Gilles Duranton, Professor of Real Estate, Department of Real Estate, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Richard Florida, Director and Professor of Business and Creativity, Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Edward L. Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Department of Economics, Brookings Institution, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
William N. Goetzmann, Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies and Director of the ICF, Yale School of Management, Yale University International Center for Finance (ICF), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Kim Kyung-Hwan, Professor of Economics, Sogang University, President, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements
Catherine Ross, Harry West Professor of City and Regional Planning, Director, Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, Georgia Institute of Technology
Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
Michael H. Schill, Dean and Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law, University of Chicago
Anthony Yeh, Chair Professor and Head, Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong

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