Mr Alex Lau oversees overall management, corporate development, and strategic planning. Alex has 20+ years of experience in the software and energy management industries. He was awarded the Singapore Computing Society Entrepreneur of the Year 2017. He holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Anacle is a leading provider of asset and property management software, as well as smart utilities management systems. With customers across the aerospace, defence, education, environment, healthcare, real estate, and utility industries.

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Chia Hock Lai is the CEO of Switchnovate and senior blockchain advisor to Tembusu Partners and has two decades of experience in the financial and technology industry, having worked in Singapore’s GovTech and NTUC Income.

An alumnus of NUS and NTU, he is the founding president of Singapore Fintech Association, a founding board member of the Global Fintech Institute and co-chairman of the Blockchain Association Singapore. He is a council member of and strategic advisor to numerous fintech startups and organizations, such as ASEAN AFIN, IEEE C/BDL, Singapore Sichuan Trade & Investment Committee, Institute of Banking & Finance, Global Impact Fintech Forum and a Fellow of the Singapore University of Social Science (SUSS)

Geoff Boeing is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis at USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, and the Director of the USC Urban Data Lab. Professor Boeing received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining USC, he was an Assistant Professor of Urban Informatics and Planning at Northeastern University. Professor Boeing’s research revolves around city planning, urban form, data science, and urban informatics. Recent projects have focused on 1) the nature and character of urban street networks around the world, and 2) how spatial technologies and their data shape housing markets and our understanding of affordability.

His recent research has been published in journals such as Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science; Computers, Environment and Urban Systems; the Journal of the American Planning Association; Applied Network Science; Transactions in GIS; and Urban Design International.

He has recently presented his research in plenary addresses at the AAG annual meeting and the Architect of the Future conference, and in an invited presentation at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. His research was shortlisted by the Information Is Beautiful Awards and the NetSci Visualization Awards and has been covered by Forbes, Slate, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and various other media outlets. He has served as a consultant for several planning, policymaking, and public health organizations.

Jiro Yoshida is Associate Professor of Business (with tenure) at the Pennsylvania State University and Guest Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo, where he teaches real estate finance to undergraduate, MS, MBA, and PhD students. Jiro is also a Research Associate at Columbia Business School, Board Director of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, Board Director of Asian Real Estate Society, Academic Fellow of the Homer Hoyt Institute, and Senior Fellow of the Ministry of Finance of Japan. He also has served as Specially-Appointed Associate Professor at Hitotsubashi University, Visiting Assistant Professor at University of California, Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo, Deputy Director at the Development Bank of Japan, a committee member of the Japanese National Land Council, and a founding director of the Japanese Association of Real Estate Financial Engineering.

Jiro’s research areas include real estate finance, macroeconomics, and asset pricing. His research is published in top journals such as Journal of Finance, Review of Economics and Statistics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, and Journal of Macroeconomics. 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, American Economic Review, Management Science, Real Estate Economics, and Journal of Urban Economics. He is the recipient of the 2007 AREUEA Dissertation Award (1st place) and multiple prestigious grants, including Fulbright Award, Real Estate Research Institute Grant, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants. His studies were also mentioned by the major media, such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, Freakonomics Radio, and the Nikkei. Jiro teaches real estate finance to undergraduate, MSREAD, MBA, and PhD students and doctoral seminars on asset pricing and urban economics. Jiro holds a B.Engi. from the University of Tokyo, an MS from MIT, and an MS and PhD from University of California, Berkeley.

Marcus is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Club Estate, a technology-enabled private markets firm, offering professional investors a digital one-stop-shop for acquiring, managing and disposing of commercial properties. He is a seasoned real estate investment professional and entrepreneur with two decades of experience working for leading global asset managers in Europe and the Middle East. Marcus has an extensive track record in commercial real estate investments. He holds an MBA from Kellogg-WHU and an MD from Aachen University.

Rose Neng LAI is Professor of Finance of the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Macau, and the Dean of the Honours College of the University since 2019. She was a Visiting Fellow in 2010 and is the Life Member of the Clare Hall of the University of Cambridge. She runs the Executive Director Office for the Asian Real Estate Society, for which she was the President in 2007, as well as executive director and the past President (2012) of the Board of the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress.

She is also active in international Associations such as the AREUEA and the ARES. Her research in real estate finance and economics, behavioral finance, and risk management has been published in the Real Estate Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Journal of Empirical Finance, the Journal of Real Estate Research, and others. She won the 2019 International Real Estate Society Achievement Award, and the 2017 Edwin Mills Best Paper Award.

She is currently the Executive Editor of the International Real Estate Review. She has also led several government consultancy projects, joined think-tanks and committees for expert opinions, and consulted by international bodies. She earned her BBA from the University of East Asia (predecessor of the University of Macau), MBA from the Simon Fraser University, Canada, and her PhD in Finance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Stephanie Sy is the Founder and CEO of Thinking Machines, a technology consultancy building AI and data platforms to solve high-impact problems. Since 2015, Stephanie and her team have been building cutting-edge AI and data solutions for leading businesses in Southeast Asia. Thinking Machines has published original research at top scientific conferences such as ICML, NeurIPS, and KDD. They are part of the UNICEF Innovation Fund for their work using artificial intelligence for economic development issues. Stephanie’s work has been recognized by Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 (2018 Enterprise Technology) and Asia 21 Young Leaders (2019). She is on the board of BPI-PhilamLife and is on the AI advisory board of the Philippine Department of Science and Technology. She graduated from Stanford University.

杭州市规划委员会专家委员会副主任委员，杭州市政府参事，杭州市委市政府咨询委员会委员，杭州市发展研究会副会长，浙江省城市科学研究会副理事长，中国城市规划学会总体规划学委会委员及详细规划学委会委员，住建部标准化委员会委员。长期从事城乡规划编制工作，曾主持编制杭州市、临海市、宁海市城市总规，杭州都市区规划纲要、美丽杭州行动规划，主持杭州控规、近期建设规划等改革。

He is currently the President of Asian Real Estate Society (AsRES) (2019-Present), and has been the board members of AsRES since 2000, and Global Chinese Real Estate Congress (GCREC) since 2008. He served on the ASSA-AREUEA Conference Program Committee (2013, 2019) and AREUEA Membership Committee (2014). He is the Editor of the International Real Estate Review, an official journal of AsRES and GCREC, and serves on the editorial boards of Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, Journal of Property Research, Pacific Rim Property Research Journal, and Journal of Housing Studies. Tien Foo was awarded the “Outstanding Referee 2017” for Real Estate Economics.

He is the Post-doctoral Honorees (2012) and the Fellow (2017) of the US-based Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics, the Homer Hoyt Institute.

Yu Shi Ming is the current President of the Global Real Estate Congress. He has been with NUS since 1981 and was Vice-Dean with the School of Design and Environment and Head of the Department of Real Estate. His main teaching and research areas cover real estate valuation, housing and development and facility management. He was a member of the Housing & Development Board, Council of Estate Agencies, Valuation Review Board, as well as the West Coast Town Council. He was also past President of the Asian Real Estate Society and the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers.

Mr LIU Hongyu is currently a professor in real estate and construction, the Director of the Institute of Real Estate Studies and an Associate Director of the Institute for China Sustainable Urbanization at Tsinghua University. His researches concentrate on real estate economics, real estate investment and finance, housing policies and land management. He is the Deputy Chairperson of the Specialist Committee of Housing and Real Estate Policy of MHURD, an Executive Director of the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress (GCREC). He is also a Hon. Professor of the University of Hong Kong, Fellow of the Asian Real Estate Society (past president).

Prof HENG Chye Kiang, PPA(P), BBM, PBM, is the Provost’s Chair Professor and immediate past dean of the School of Design and Environment at the National University of Singapore. He teaches architecture, urban design and planning and has lectured at major universities in Europe and Asia. He has been appointed visiting professor to several universities in China, Korea and Japan and is currently Honorary Professor at CUHK. His research covers sustainable urban design, planning, and the history of Chinese cities. His books include Singapore Chronicles: Urban Planning (2018), 50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore (2016), Re-Framing Urban Space (2015), On Asian Streets and Public Space (2010), A Digital Reconstruction of Tang Chang’an (2006), and Cities of Aristocrats and Bureaucrats (1999). Prof Heng is the conceptual designer of several international urban design competition-winning entries and awards. He also serves as editorial board member of several international journals and as jury member of many international design competitions in Asia. He served on the boards of Singapore’s HDB, URA, CLC, BCA, JTC, NMS, SIT and NAFA.

Xiaoling Zhang's research focuses on sustainability science and resource management and economics, and political economics of environmental studies and energy studies. She also works predominantly with macro-level dynamics in sustainable urbanization, regional and neighborhood change, urban socio-spatial restructuring, informal and formal policy regime, governance and the interactions between them. In addition, Prof Zhang is one of the special recognition diplomas' awardees for the 35th World Cultural Council. She now serves as Associate Editor for npj urban sustainability (Nature); At CityU, she is leading the Smart City Cluster. She has given Keynote/Planetary Speeches for more than 20 times at international conferences. Prof Zhang also act as the associate director for Regional sustainable development committee, and the executive member of the Energy Resources System Engineering Branch of the Chinese Society of Systems Engineering Council.

张晓玲，香港城市大学教授，博导；全球Top 2% 科学家（Stanford University 评选），中国区域可持续发展专业委员会副主任，中国城市经济学学会理事，中国系统工程学会能源资源系统工程分会常务理事,中国国家自然科学基金委重点项目承担人和评审专家。曾在香港大学和香港理工大学任职。现任Nature npj Urban sustainability（npj Nature子刊系列）的副主编。长期致力于可计算的可持续发展科学、能源与资源环境约束下的可持续城镇化、城市经济／房地产政策及管理创新，资源／能源管理与技术经济等方面的研究工作。作为共同第一作者在《Nature Food》等top期刊发表论文百余篇。目前正在主持多项激烈竞争性的重要研究项目，包括两项香港研究局（RGC）项目和三项国家自然科学基金项目（含一项国家自科基金重点项目）；更多次受邀在重要国际会议中进行主旨发言。此外，还曾获得2018 WCC特别表彰奖（世界文化联合会）、香港城市大学2017年杰出青年研究员奖、2016年校长嘉许奖等。

He works on coordinated rural-urban development and strategies of planning intervention, with specific focuses on such issues as land (re)development, institutions of land rights, peri-urbanization, social equity, returning migrants, community planning and governance, and rural transformation, etc. He has published a few books and papers in English and Chinese, involving the journals such as Urban Studies, Cities, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Building and Environment, etc. He has been the principal investigator of three research projects funded by China’s NSFC and Ministry of Education, respectively, and collaborators of three NSFC-funded research projects.

Dr Lindenthal is an Associate Professor for Real Estate Finance at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. His research interests are twofold: First, he analyzes property investments in the very long-term, tracking rents, prices, and returns for up to 500 years. The second research line focuses on applied machine learning techniques to utilize high-dimensional “Big(ish)” data. Put differently, he uses images and other data that are too complex for spreadsheets to better understand property values, household preferences, and decisions made by very human and not always rational agents.

Man Cho is a full professor at KDI School of Public Policy and Management in Korea, and is currently serving as Chairman of International Academy of Financial Consumers, an international academic association with over 100 members from more than 20 countries. His teaching and research areas include FinTech, credit risk management, real estate finance, and and urban and regional economics. Before joining KDI School in May 2007, he worked for Fannie Mae, one of the major MBS (Mortgage Backed Security) issuers in the U.S., in which he involved with various R&D projects such as mortgage and MBS pricing, collateral (property) assessment, and mortgage default and prepayment modeling and also served several managerial positions. Prior to Fannie Mae, he worked for the World Bank as a long-term consultant (1991~92), and taught at the Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct professor (2004~07). He holds a Ph.D degree in Applied Economics and Managerial Science from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1991.

Mr Cheng Hsing Yao is Chief Executive Officer of GuocoLand Group, a premier Asian real estate brand focused on creating innovative products that meet the future needs of how people live and work. The Group has a proven track record of developing and managing iconic integrated developments as well as high-end quality residential developments in key gateway cities such as its flagship Guoco Tower and the upcoming Guoco Midtown in Singapore, Guoco Changfeng City in Shanghai and 18T in Chongqing, China, as well as Damansara City in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Hsing Yao is also a Director of Eco World International, a developer with key investments in London and Australia.

Prior to joining GuocoLand Group, he was with the Singapore public service. There, he held leadership positions at the Centre for Liveable Cities and the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), and was involved in projects like the Marina Bay and the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City. Hsing Yao was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in 2006.

In January 2021, Hsing Yao was appointed by the President of the Republic of Singapore as a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP).

Currently, Hsing Yao is a board member of the National Parks Board. He is also Co-chairman of the Integrated Digital Delivery Steering Committee and the Central Procurers Panel at the Building and Construction Authority (BCA). In addition, he is a member of URA’s Design Advisory Committee as well as Heritage and Identity Partnership.

Besides serving as an executive committee member of Urban Land Institute (ULI) Singapore, Hsing Yao is a member of the Management Board of the Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies (IREUS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) as well as the Leadership Advisory Group for the HealthCity Novena Masterplan 2030 and Beyond by the National Healthcare Group (NHG). In addition, he is also a Director of the Business Improvement District (BID) association for Tanjong Pagar.

Hsing Yao holds a Master in Design Studies from Harvard University, Bachelor of Architecture from Newcastle University, United Kingdom and a Bachelor of Arts from National University of Singapore.

Dr Seek Ngee Huat is Chairman of the Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he is also Provost’s Chair Professor (Practice) of Real Estate. He was previously President of GIC Real Estate Pte Ltd, a board director of GIC Private Limited and Chairman of Global Logistic Properties Ltd.

He is the current Chairman of GLP IM Holdings Limited and a board member of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and the Centre for Liveable Cities. He is also a senior advisor to Frasers Property Ltd and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board.

Dr Seek is the former Chairman of Urban Land Institute (ULI), Asia-Pacific and Global Advisor to ULI Foundation. He had served on the real estate and business advisory boards of various universities, including Peking, Cambridge, Harvard, Columbia and Fundacao Dom Cabral (Brazil). His other industry appointments included being a board director of the Pension Real Estate Association (US) and a member of the Land Sub-committee of the 2009 Singapore Government Economic Strategy Committee.

Dr Seek was conferred the Singapore Public Administration Gold Medal in 2007, the NUS Outstanding Service Award in 2015 and the NUS Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 2011. He holds a BSc (Estate Management), University of Singapore; MSc (Business Administration), University of British Columbia; and a PhD (Urban Research), Australian National University.

Prof CHEONG Koon Hean is currently Chair of the Centre for Liveable Cities (MND) as well as the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (SUTD). She was formerly the CEO of the Housing and Development Board from 2010 to 2020, overseeing some 1 million public housing flats and introduced a new generation of well designed, community centric, sustainable and smart public housing. Prof Cheong was also CEO of Urban Redevelopment Authority from 2004 to 2010 and concurrently the Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of National Development from 2001 to 2016, with extensive experience in land use planning, conservation of built heritage and the real estate market. She played a key role in major urban transformations such as Singapore’s new city extension Marina Bay and the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco City.

She has served on numerous advisory panels including the World Economic Forum Council and is currently on the Asia Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory Panel. She is a board trustee of the National University of Singapore, former Deputy President and current Council member of the International Federation for Housing & Planning, Chairman of the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize’s Nominating Committee, a Fellow(Life) and Honorary Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Architects and Institute of Planners respectively, a Practice Professor of SUTD and an endowed professor of NTU. She was formerly on several boards such as the Urban Redevelopment Authority, Housing & Development Board, Jurong Town Corporation, Jurong Port, National Heritage Board, Civil Service College and a global trustee of the Urban Land Institute.

Prof Cheong has received numerous awards, notably the Meritorious Service Medal for outstanding public service and is the first Asian to receive both the 2016 Urban Land Institute’s Prize for Urban Visionaries and the Lynn S Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award by the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. She is a Colombo Plan Scholar with degrees in Architecture (Hon 1, University Gold Medal), a Doctor of Architecture Honoris Causa (University of Newcastle), Masters degree in Urban Development Planning (University College London), and has completed the Advanced Management Programme (Harvard University).

Dr Liu Thai-Ker is the Founding Chairman of Morrow Architects & Planners Pte Ltd. Concurrently he is the Board Member for Singapore Cooperation Enterprise and Adjunct Professor in Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. He was the Founding Chairman of the Centre for Liveable Cities (2008-2020), Senior Director of RSP Architects, Planners & Engineers (Pte) Ltd (1992-2017), CEO and Chief Architect of the Housing and Development Board (1969-1989) and CEO and Chief Planner of the Urban Redevelopment Authority (1989-1992).

He is often credited for implementing the successful public housing programme and urbanization of Singapore. For these reasons, since he left the Singapore civil service, he has been invited to plan over 50 cities and many major architectural projects in countries such as China, Fiji, Russia, Vietnam, and Myanmar.

Among his various international awards, Dr Liu received The Graham Mitchel Award (2018) – International Chapter by the Australian Institute of Architects and the 2nd ASEAN Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to Architecture (1993). For his contributions to Singapore, in 2015, he received The Singapore National Day Award – The Distinguished Service Order, The Singapore Design Council – Golden Jubilee Award and The Singapore Institute of Planners Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award.

Professor Lam is an educator, researcher, architect and consultant who specializes in life-cycle building information modeling and computational design support systems for total building performance analysis and building diagnostics. He has completed many major funded research projects in Singapore and the USA, and findings are widely published. He serves as a member of the Editorial Boards of Building Simulation: An International Journal (Springer and Tsinghua University Press), and Buildings (MDPI AG, Switzerland).

He is appointed as a member of the Urban Systems Cluster (previously known as Built Environment Cluster) Sub-Committee under the Future Economic Council. He is a Director of the Centre for Liveable Cities Ltd., Singapore, and Advisory Board member of Delos, USA, which established the world's first building standard focused exclusively on human health and wellness. He is a building performance consultant for several major award-winning projects and certified green buildings in Singapore, China and USA. He was awarded the 2013 Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize from the US National Science Foundation “for exemplary research contribution to technology innovation and positive impact on technology, industry and the society as a whole”. He also received the IBM Faculty Award in 2010. He was conferred the inaugural iBuildSG LEAD Distinguished Fellow by the Building and Construction Authority, Singapore in 2020.

Professor Lam graduated from the University of Nottingham, UK with a B Arch (Hons) Degree and holds a PhD (Architecture) from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He is a UK licensed architect, and elected Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) for his significant contribution to architecture, the profession and the community. He is an Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University and is currently appointed as Provost’s Chair Professor of Architecture and Building and Dean of the School of Design and Environment, the National University of Singapore.

Kwan Ok LEE is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Dean's Chair in the Department of Real Estate at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is also the Deputy Head in the NUS Department of Real Estate for the graduate programs. She won the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award for 2016/2017 as well as the School Teaching Excellence Award for 2015/6, 2016/7, and 2018/9. Kwan Ok's research has appeared in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Regional Science and Journal of Law and Economics. Her research interests include housing markets, urban policy analysis, household residential choice, and neighborhood dynamics.

Kwan Ok currently sits on the editorial boards of nine peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, International Journal of Urban Sciences, Housing Studies, the Journal of Korea Planning Association, and the Journal of Korea Real Estate Analysis. She is a board member of the Asian Real Estate Society (AsRES) and an AsRES representative to the International Real Estate Society Board. She has also served as an academic expert and commentator for international organizations and government bodies including the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of South Korea. Prior to joining NUS, Kwan Ok received her PhD in Policy, Planning, and Development from the University of Southern California and Master in Urban Planning from Harvard University.