D. Sam Chandan, PhD FRICS FRSPH is Professor of Finance and Director of the Center for Real Estate Finance at the NYU Stern School of Business; Founder and Non-Executive Chairman of Chandan Economics; Economist Laureate of the Real Estate Lenders Association; Forbes contributor; and, host of the Urban Lab. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), and a Contributing Member of the American Society for Microbiology. Prior to joining Stern, Dr. Chandan was the Silverstein Chair and Dean of the NYU SPS Schack Institute. His current research is focussed on urban epidemiology and the preparedness of systemically important urban areas in managing novel public health threats.

SCHACK INSTITUTE OF REAL ESTATE
Founded in 1967 by Larry Silverstein and the leadership of the New York City real estate industry, the NYU SPS Schack Institute is recognized globally as one of the world’s foremost centers of real estate research and pedagogy. Dr. Sam Chandan has led the Institute since 2016 as the Silverstein Chair in Real Estate Development and Investment.
CHANDAN ECONOMICS
ECONOMIC ADVISORS AND DATA SCIENTISTS
TO THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY
Sam Chandan is Founder of Chandan Economics, a leading economic advisory and data science firm serving the institutional real estate market. He was formerly Chief Economist and remains active with the firm in the role of non-executive chairman.