FU Yuming

Yuming Fu is an economist striving to understand better the workings of cities and policies that enable cities to succeed. His research contributed new insights into housing choice by households, real estate market price discovery, the efficiency of urban land markets, and labor mobility and resource allocation between cities. His research has been published in top academic journals in the fields of real estate, urban economics, and urban planning, as well as in general journals such as Management Science and American Economic Review. He also contributed to housing and urban policy analysis and advisory for government agencies in China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. His current research focuses on emerging urban issues and their urban planning and policy implications, including energy transition, social interactions and well-being, and urban success as a problem of organized complexity.

Yuming holds joint appointments as an associate professor at the Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, and the Department of Real Estate, NUS Business School. He is on the University Research Committee Expert Panel. He served as vice dean for research at the School of Design and Environment from 2010 to 2016 after stepping down as the acting director of the NUS Institute of Real Estate Studies. His research leadership experience enabled him to develop a broader perspective on urban challenges and collaborate effectively with scholars in different fields to tackle these challenges.

Yuming received his Ph.D. in urban land economics and MSc in management science from the University of British Columbia and BEng from Shanghai Jiaotong University. He was twice elected to the board of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) and a long-time board member of the Asian Real Estate Society. He is an editorial board member of the AREUEA journal, Real Estate Economics, and the Journal of Real Estate Research of the American Real Estate Society. He is a Hoyt Academic Fellow of the Hoyt Institute Weimer School.