Advisory Boards

Penn IUR is advised by internationally renowned urban experts. The Penn IUR Advisory Board is comprised of innovative practitioners in such fields as real estate, governance, arts and culture, urban planning, finance, communications, and philanthropy. The Penn IUR Executive Committee is composed of deans, faculty, and University administrators from across Penn’s 12 schools. 

Advisory Board

P. David Bramble Managing Partner, Co-Founder MCB Real Estate Patrick J. Brett Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Kevin G. Chavers Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Alexander Chilton Head of Municipal Structuring, Financing and Lending at Morgan Stanley Municipal Bond Division Manuel A. Diaz Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Paul Farmer Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Renee Glover Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Jacques Gordon Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Doug Hagan President, Krytar Virginia Hepner Penn IUR Advisory Board Member J. Robert Hillier Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Rachel Slosburg Kramer Vice President and Partner, The Richdale Group William Lukashok Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Tom Millon Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Jessica Morgan Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Marc H. Morial, Esq. Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Fahd Mukhtar Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Melanie Franco Nussdorf Partner, Steptoe & Johnson Lawrence Parks CEO and Co-Founder, Forethought Advisors Egbert Perry Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Jeffrey R. Poss Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Deborah Ratner Salzberg Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Richard P. Richman Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Mark H. Rosenberg Penn IUR Advisory Board Chair Molly Rouse-Terlevich Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Everett K. Sands Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Alan Schnitzer Penn IUR Advisory Board Vice Chair Robert Stewart Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Michael Tabb Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Kenneth M. Tanenbaum Penn IUR Advisory Board Member Sameh Wahba Regional Director for Sustainable Development, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank

Executive Committee

Nikhil Anand Daniel Braun Silvers, W’98, WG’99 and Robert Peter Silvers, C’02 Family Presidential Professor of Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences Eric Bradlow K.P. Chao Professor, Professor of Marketing; Vice Dean of Analytics, The Wharton School William Burke-White Professor of Law, Penn Carey Law School Sanya Carley Faculty Director, The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy & City Planning, Stuart Weitzman School of Design Dennis Culhane Professor and Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Social Policy Elizabeth Delmelle Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning John DiIulio, Jr. Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society Gilles Duranton Dean's Chair in Real Estate Professor Fernando Ferreira C.F. Koo Professor, Professor of Real Estate, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania Lance Freeman Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor Andrea Goulet Professor of French and Francophone Studies Erick Guerra Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning Jessie Handbury Gilbert and Shelley Harrison Associate Professor, Real Estate, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business Emily Hannum Professor of Sociology and Education and Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences Shane Jensen Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Wharton John MacDonald Professor of Criminology and Sociology Laura Perna GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education Wendell Pritchett James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education Vincent Reina Associate Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design Harvey Rubin Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine Megan Ryerson UPS Chair of Transportation, Associate Chair Anthony (Tony) Sorrentino Assistant Vice President, Office of the Executive Vice President, University of Pennsylvania Frederick Steiner Dean and Paley Professor, School of Design Katharine Strunk Dean, and George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education Tariq Thachil Professor, Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India, Director, Center for Advanced Study of India, School of Arts and Sciences Michael Weisberg Deputy Director, Perry World House; Bess W. Heyman President's Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences

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