Brown Bag Fridays - February Series
Venue: NUS Cities Office
Time: 12PM onwards
Time: 12PM onwards
16 February 2024 |
Water Sensitive City - The Singapore Case
by Ms. Lee Jihye (PhD Candidate, Department of Architecture and Former Studio Leader)
Jihye is a former Liveable Cities Studio Leader and possesses years of experience working in the industry and with various renowned professors and experts in the area of urban planning, design, and architecture. She worked on various projects during her stint at the Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities (CSAC) and is highly passionate about cities and the urban. Currently pursuing a PhD, Jihye continues to be active in academia and practice, and keenly shares her insights and takeaways.
23 February 2024 |
Economic Impacts of Urban Heat Island
by Prof. Qian Wenlan (Director of NUS Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies, Ng Teng Fong Chair Professor in Real Estate)
Wenlan Qian is Professor of Finance and Real Estate, and Ng Teng Fong Chair Professor in Real Estate at the NUS Business School. She is fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research, Luohan Academy at Alibaba Group, and the Homer Hoyt Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics. Currently, Wenlan Qian is editor of Real Estate Economics and associate editor of Financial Management.
Wenlan Qian's main research interests are household finance, real estate, digitization and FinTech, short sellers, financial intermediaries. She is the recipient of multiple prestigious external grants and has won the best paper awards at leading international conferences in finance and real estate. Her research is accepted for publication at top academic journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Management Science, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Review of Finance.
Wenlan Qian holds a PhD in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.