Kerry Vandell

Kerry Vandell joined the Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine faculty in July 2006 as the Founding Area Head of its new academic focus in real estate and Director of its new Centre for Real Estate. He hails from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he held the Tiefenthaler Distinguished Chair in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, and was the former Director of the Centre for Urban Land Economics Research and Chair of the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics. He was previously associated with the Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Southern Methodist University.

Professor Vandell has consulted widely and co-authored more than 80 papers which have appeared in several publications like the Journal of Finance, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Real Estate Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and the Wharton Real Estate Review. Professor Vandell now serves as a board member of the Asian Real Estate Society. He is currently a member of the Counsellors of Real Estate and the Urban Land Institute and is the former president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA). He is on the editorial boards of Real Estate Economics (former co-editor), Land Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Research, Housing Policy Debate, and the International Real Estate Review.

Prior to obtaining his PhD from MIT at the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, Professor Vandell received his bachelors and masters degrees in Engineering at Rice University, and masters in City and Regional Planning at Harvard University.