Smeal College Professor Selected As A Fulbright Distinguished Chair
Smeal College Professor Selected As A Fulbright Distinguished Chair
A professor in Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration
has been named a Fulbright Distinguished Chair.
The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board recently selected
Dr. Austin Jaffe for the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Property Systems
in the Centre for Property Studies at the University of New Brunswick
in Fredericton, Canada. Jaffe is director of the Institute for Real Estate
Studies in Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration and the
Philip H. Sieg Professor of Business Administration.
As a Fulbright appointee, he will join the ranks of some 225,000 distinguished
scholars and professionals worldwide who are leaders in the educational,
political, economic, social and cultural lives of their countries. Awards
in the Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program are viewed as among the
most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar Program.
The Centre for Property Studies is a multi-disciplinary research institute
dealing with property matters often with an international scope. Jaffe
will teach and conduct research on property rights issues and real estate
financial analysis while at the Centre.
Jaffe is recognized as a real estate authority throughout the world and
has appeared on programs to give papers at more than 100 institutions
in more than 30 countries. He also served as a consultant to The World
Bank, Nordic Council of Ministers, Prudential Realty Group, Eastern European
Real Property Foundation, Real Estate Research Institute, and others.
He has held faculty appointments at several international universities
in Sweden, the Netherlands, Israel, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong
and Thailand.
He is the author or co-author of thirteen books including Fundamentals of Real Estate Investment and Property Rights and has published over 75 articles in academic and professional journals. He is a member of several editorial review boards in the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, and Hong Kong. He was the 1994 President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
