Austin Jaffe
Philip H. Sieg Professor of Business Administration and Research Director, Institute for Real Estate Studies, Smeal College of Business Administration
Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Austin J. Jaffe is the Philip H. Sieg professor of Business Administration and research director of the Institute for Real Estate Studies at Penn State University. He is also president of JS & Associates, a real estate software firm. He has also served as interim department chair for the Department of Insurance and Real Estate at Penn State University. He received a B.S. in real estate and finance, an M.S. in finance, and a Ph.D. in real estate and finance all from the University of Illinois. Prior to coming to Penn State in 1981, he taught at the University of Oregon and has held faculty appointments at several prestigious international universities including the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Tel Aviv University, Israel; National University of Singapore; University of Auckland, New Zealand; Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration; and University of Hong Kong.

Professor Jaffe is recognized as a real estate authority throughout the world and has appeared as an invited speaker on property rights issues and real estate financial analysis throughout Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union. He has appeared on professional programs to give invited papers at more than 100 institutions in more than 25 countries. He has also appeared on executive and professional programs for several national associations. He has served as a consultant to The World Bank, Nordic Council of Ministers, Prudential Realty Group, Eastern European Real Property Foundation, Real Estate Research Institute, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and others.