Dr. Jiro Yoshida is the Arthur P. Pasquarella Professor in Real Estate at The Pennsylvania State University and Project/Guest Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo. He teaches finance and real estate at the undergraduate, MRE, MBA, MS, and PhD levels. He is also a Research Associate at Columbia Business School, Affiliate at the Stanford US-Asia Technology Management Center, Associate Editor of the International Review of Finance, a Board Director of the International Real Estate Society, a Board Director of the Asian Real Estate Society, an Academic Fellow of the Hoyt Institute, and a Senior Fellow of the Ministry of Finance of Japan. He has also served on the board of directors of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and a committee of the Japanese National Land Council, visited the Bank of Japan, Hitotsubashi University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Tokyo, worked at the Development Bank of Japan, and founded the Japanese Association of Real Estate Financial Engineering.

Dr. Yoshida's research areas include real estate finance, macroeconomics, and asset pricing. His research has been published in top journals such as Journal of Finance, Review of Economics and Statistics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Financial Stability, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. He is also an associate editor of Frontiers in Built Environment, an editorial board member of Real Estate Economics, and a referee for top journals such as Journal of Political Economy and American Economic Review. He is the recipient of the 2007 AREUEA Dissertation Award (1st place) and several prestigious fellowships, including the Fulbright Award, Real Estate Research Institute Grant, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants. His work has also been featured in major media outlets, including the BBC, Forbes, WIRED, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, Freakonomics Radio, and the Nikkei. He holds a B.Engi. from the University of Tokyo, an MS from MIT, and an MS and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.