Short Vita
Employment
Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 8/2016 on
Associate Professor of Economic Geography (Reader), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 8/2011 – 7/2016
Lecturer (post-Major Review), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 8/2009 – 7/2011
Lecturer (pre-Major Review), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 9/2003 – 7/2009
Economist, House Price Research Group, Fannie Mae, 7/2002 – 8/2003
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center, 7/2000 – 6/2002
Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Business and Public Policy Department, 1999 – 2000
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum WWZ (Center for Economics and Business Management), 1998 – 1999
Research and Teaching Assistant and Class Teacher, University of Basel, WWZ, 1995 – 1998
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching), 1/9/2023 – 31/8/2026
Director of LSE’s MSc Real Estate Economics and Finance (MSc REEF) , 9/2003 – 8/2018
Appointments & Affiliations
Associate, Centre for Economic Performance (Urban Economics & Community Wellbeing), 2014 -
Associate, Local Economic Growth What Works Centre, 2013 -
Fellow of the Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics (Class of 2016), 2016 -
Resarch Fellow, Globalization of Real Estate Network, University of Zurich, Center for Urban and Real Estate Management (CUREM), 2018 -
Research Fellow, Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED), University of Bern, 2015 -
Visiting Professor, Institute for Urban and Real Estate Studies, Reitaku University (Japan), 6/2020 -
Member of the Verein für Socialpolitik (Ausschuss für Regionaltheorie und -politik), 2018 -
Member of Expert Advisory Group to the Geospatial Commission, UK National Land Data Programme, 2022 -
Member of the Executive Committee (‘Leitungsausschuss’) Center for Urban & Real Estate Management CUREM, University of Zürich, 2019 -
Member of the AREUEA (American Real Estate and Urban Economic Association) Board of Directors, 2015-2017
Member of Advisory Board, MSc Real Estate Economics and Finance, London, 2009 -
Editorial Positions
Associate Editor, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2010 -
Associate Editor, Journal of Regional Science, 2016 -
Member of Editorial Board, Real Estate Economics, 2021 -
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Housing Economics, 2015 -
Guest Editor, Journal of Housing Economics, Special Issue entitled “Housing in Europe: issues of supply, affordability and tenure”
Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Public Finance Review, 2017 -