Siqi Zheng
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I am the Samuel Tak Lee Associate Professor of Real Estate Development and Entrepreneurship at Center for Real Estate, and Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (http://siqizheng.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org ). I established MIT China Future City Lab (https://cfclab-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/ ) and is the faculty director of her Lab (http://news.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/2018/faculty-profile-siqi-zheng-0703 ). I am the current President of Asian Real Estate Society (2018-2019). I am the Associated Editor of China Economic Review, Journal of Economic Surveys, and is on the editorial board of Journal of Housing Economics and International Real Estate Review. My field of specialization is urban and environmental economics, urban development and real estate market, with a special focus on China. I published in many peer reviewed English journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Geography, European Economic Review, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Transportation Research Part A, Environment and Planning A, Ecological Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. A book I have co-authored with Matthew Kahn, Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China (Princeton University Press) was published in 2016. I have also published more than 100 papers and two books in Chinese. I have completed or been undertaking research projects granted or entrusted by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, among others. I received her Ph.D. in urban development and real estate from Tsinghua University in 2005, and did my post-doc research at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Prior to coming to MIT, I was a professor and the director of Hang Lung Center for Real Estate at Tsinghua University, China, where I still hold an adjunct professor position now.

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