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Sam Chandan, PhD MPH MSc FRSPH FRICS is Founding Director of the Chen Institute  at the NYU Stern School of Business, a member of Stern's finance faculty, Founder and Executive Chairman of Chandan Economics, and Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Chandan Foundation. He is a Senior Fellow at the United States Military Academy at West Point's McDonald Conference, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), and Real Estate Research Institute (RERI). In addition to his principal role at NYU, he is a contributor to the World Economic Forum and serves on the boards of several for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Prior to joining Stern, Dr. Chandan was the Silverstein Chair and Dean of the NYU SPS Schack Institute.  His current research is focused on innovation in real estate capital markets, applications of artificial intelligence in the real estate sector and in medical research, and urban infectious disease epidemiology.

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CHANDAN FOUNDATION

The Chandan Foundation invests in community-level education, health, infrastructure, and economic development programs in low- and middle-income countries.

C.H. CHEN INSTITUTE foR GLOBAL REAL ESTATE FINANCE

Established in 2022 and supported by Stern's largest-ever gift for a center or institute, the Chen Institute advances our understanding of real estate and the built environment through groundbreaking scholarship, curricular innovation, and deep industry and policy engagement. Home to one of the world's top-ranked real estate MBA programs as well as interdisciplinary centers in real estate finance, climate and the built environment, property technology and artificial intelligence, and global real estate markets, the Institute and its affiliated faculty work to address the most significant questions facing industry and government.

CHANDAN ECONOMICS

ECONOMIC ADVISORS AND DATA SCIENTISTS

TO THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY

Sam Chandan is Founder and Non-Exectuive Chairman of Chandan Economics, a leading economic advisory and data science firm serving the institutional real estate industry. 

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REIMAGINING REAL ESTATE

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Lead Authors Kalin Bracken and Sam Chandan, PhD

Foreward by Christian Ulbrich

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THE ARCHIVES

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Sam Chandan on the

Housing Market

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The Urban Lab on

Apple Podcasts

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ARCHIVE

The Real Estate Hour on

SiriusXM Business Radio

2016–2019

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SUMMER 2022 CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY

House Financial Services Committee

Hearings on Inequality, Homeownership, and the Long-Term Impact on the Housing Market from Rising Prices

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THE REAL ESTATE HOUR
SIRIUSXM BUSINESS RADIO
BROADCASTING FROM THE 
WHARTON school

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