Dr. Sam Chandan is Global Chief Economist and Executive Vice President of Real Capital Analytics and an adjunct professor of real estate at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his primary role as RCA’s Chief Economist, Dr. Chandan oversees RCA’s Analytics Team and is a member of the firm’s Management Committee.
Dr. Chandan’s commentary on commercial and residential markets, the economy, policy and regulation, and capital and credit markets is regularly featured national and global print publications. Named one of the industry’s most influential people by Multi-Housing News magazine, Dr. Chandan is also a regular speaker at industry events and a contributing author to many of its preeminent publications.
Among his academic affiliations, Dr. Chandan is a member of the Royal Economic Society, the American Economics Association, and the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. He was elected an Eminent Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in 2008, serves on the Advisory Board of the Real Estate Research Institute (RERI), and is a Visiting Scholar at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, City University of New York. Among his other academic commitments, he has served as a peer reviewer for Harvard Business School Press.
Dr. Chandan holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was a Doctoral Scholar in the Economics Department at Princeton University. In addition to the PhD, Dr. Chandan holds masters’ degrees in economics and engineering.
In addition to his current teaching responsibilities at the Wharton School, Dr. Chandan has taught microeconomic theory at Wharton and was a visiting professor on the faculty of the Economics Department at Dartmouth College. Prior to joining RCA, Dr. Chandan was President of Real Estate Econometrics. Before that, he served as Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at Reis, Inc.