Yongheng Deng is Director of Institute of Real Estate Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Professor of Real Estate at the Department of Real Estate, School of Design and Environment, and Professor of Finance, NUS Business School. His research has addressed a wide variety of issues in real estate finance and urban economic policy, including asset pricing of mortgages backed securities and derivatives, credit risks analysis of CMBS and CDO markets as well as green-building, eco-environment and governance off real estate markets. He has served as a member of the Singapore Economic Strategy Committee on Land. He is also a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt Institute for Advanced Real Estate Studies; and Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS).Prior to joining NUS, he was a Professor at the University of Southern California (USC). He has also served as Economist and Expert in the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) - a financial regulator overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - in Washington DC, and was a Postâ€Doctorial Research Fellow at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
