Annual Meeting and International Conference July 12-15 ... - AsRES

Keynote Speakers
Dr. Anna Kajumulo TIBAIJUKA
Dr. Anna Kajumulo TIBAIJUKA (D.Sc., Agro-Economics) UN
Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN-HABITAT
Director-General, United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON)
Anna Tibaijuka is the first African woman elected by the UN General
Assembly as Under-Secretary-General of a United Nations programme. She
is currently a member of the World Health Organization Commission on the
Social Determinants of Health, and is also a member of the Advisory Board
of the Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor.
Prior to joining the UN, Mrs. Tibaijuka was as a Professor of Economics at
the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She is the author of various
books and many research papers on real estate related areas. She received
honorary Doctorate degrees conferred by the University of McGill in
Canada, University College London, and Herriot Watt in Scotland. She is a
Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry
and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture.
Dr. William Newman
Founder and chairman of New Plan Excel Realty Trust, Inc., one of the
nation's largest real estate companies, which focuses on the ownership,
management, acquisition, development and redevelopment of community
and neighborhood shopping centers.
Received the Wall Street Transcript's gold, silver, and bronze medals for
national leadership in the real estate industry, and Ernst & Young's Real
Estate Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1998.
Former chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Investment
Trusts, a position he occupied from 1990 to 1992.
A pioneer in the development of new REIT concept, which reformed the
REIT industry in the early 1990s.
John M. Quigley
John Quigley is the I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor at the
University of California, Berkeley, where he holds professorial appointments
in the Department of Economics, the Haas School of Business, and the
Goldman School of Public Policy. He has served as Chairman of Berkeley’s
Department of Economics and as Chair of Berkeley’s Academic Senate. He
is an expert on issues in public finance and taxation, and on real estate,
mortgage and financial markets. He is the author of more than a dozen
books and over a hundred scientific publications. He served as President of
the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and Vice
President of the Association for Public Policy and Management. He has
received various recognitions for his scholarly contributions, most recently
an honorary degree form the Royal Institute of Technology, awarded in
November 2007.
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