{"id":38,"date":"2021-09-09T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/Partridge\/813266\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2021-09-10T02:42:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T02:42:40","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/Partridge\/813266\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr Kim Hin David HO<\/strong> is Honorary (Full) Professor in Development Economics &amp; Land Economy, awarded by the UK public university, the University of Hertfordshire. He retired end-May 2019 from the School of Design and Environment (Tenured Staff) from the National University of Singapore. Professor HO spent the last thirty-one years across several sectors, which include the military, oil refining, aerospace engineering, public housing, resettlement, land acquisition, land reclamation, real estate investment and development, international real estate investing. He spent six years in the real estate career as part of the executive management group of Singapore Technologies Ltd at Pidemco Land Limited, and as part of the senior management team of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation\u2019s GIC Real Estate Private Limited. Seventeen years are spent in the National University of Singapore at the then School of Building and Estate Management, the Department of Real Estate, School of Design and Environment, where his research expertise is in two areas. First is international real estate in the risk-return behavior behind international real estate investing in direct and indirect real estate. Secondly, is urban and public policy analysis involving real estate, sea transport, public housing, land and land use. Schooled in development economics and in land economy at the University of Cambridge, England, he has effectively extended these disciplines to examine his two expertise areas. Apart from being well versed in econometrics, his quantitative interests include real estate demand and supply, investment and finance, artificial intelligent modeling in real estate and system dynamics modeling for real estate market analysis and public policy analysis. He is the Member of the Royal Economics Society (U.K.), Academic Member of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (U.S.), Fellow of the American Real Estate Society (U.S.), member of the American Economic Association (U.S.) and member of the Economic Society of Singapore and the Singapore Institute of Management. He holds the degrees of Master of Philosophy (1st Class Honors with Distinction), Honorary Doctor of Letters and the Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, U.K. He has published widely in top international journals and conferences, in chapters of international academic book publishers. Professor HO has written 14 major books (including this book), undertaken many consultancies and funded research projects. He has written a total of about 275 published works (with 91 in peer reviewed, reputable international journals). He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Economics &amp; Public Finance, Real Estate Economics journal, Journal of Property Research, Journal of Property Investment &amp; Finance, Journal of Real Estate Finance &amp; Economics, the Property Management journal and the International Journal of Strategic Property Management. He has published widely in conferences, Finance, chapters of international academic book publishers, undertaken many consultancies and funded research projects. He is an immediate past Governor of the St Gabriel\u2019s Foundation that oversees nine schools in Singapore; and a District Judge equivalent member of the Valuation Review Board, Ministry of Finance, Singapore, and the Singapore Courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Kim Hin David HO is Honorary (Full) Professor in Development Economics &amp; Land Economy, awarded by the UK public university, the University of Hertfordshire. 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