The REFE Institute is advised by a distinguished board comprised of leaders from industry and academe. The advisory board members help in shaping the direction of the institute and bring relevant expertise from their respective areas.” The members are appointed for a three-year term by the executive Dean of the school on recommendation from the Institute Director and Manager. Here is the list of our current Advisory Board members:
REFE Board:
"Barry A.N. Bloom, Ph.D. is President and Chief Operating Officer of Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc., a NYSE-listed real estate investment trust. He currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Central Florida and Florida International University and served as a Conti Professor at Penn State for the 2018-2019 academic year. From 2011 to 2013, Mr. Bloom served as an Associate Professor of the Practice in the School of Hospitality Administration at Boston University.
From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Bloom co-founded and was a Principal of Abacus Lodging Investors LLC. Previously, Mr. Bloom was Executive Vice President of Portfolio Management & Administration with CNL Hotels & Resorts, Inc. and prior to CNL, he served as Vice President – Investment Management for Hyatt Hotels Corporation. In addition, Mr. Bloom has worked for Tishman Hotel & Realty, VMS Realty Partners, and Pannell Kerr Forster (now CBRE Hotels). Mr. Bloom received his B.S. in Hotel and Restaurant Management as well as an MBA from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Hospitality Management from Iowa State University."
"Jeffrey D. Fisher, Ph.D. is a Research and Education Consultant to the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) and President of the Homer Hoyt Institute. He is also a founding Partner in the Pavonis Group, LLC and on the board of RealNex which is a Pavonis Group affiliate company. He is a Professor Emeritus of Real Estate at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, a Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University, and serves on the advisory board of Sterling Valuation.
Dr. Fisher has served on the board of directors of the Pension Real Estate Association, the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) and the Real Estate Research Institute (RERI). He received PREA/Graaskamp Award for Research Excellence from the Pension Real Estate Association, the Richard Ratcliff award and the Pioneer Award from the American Real Estate Society, the George Bloom Award from the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and the Martin S. Katz Memorial Award from the American Property Tax Council (APTC).
He has served as an expert witness in court cases for several clients including Inland Steel, Simon Property Group and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). He has consulted for the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. and the multifamily group of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae). He has appeared on CNBC to discuss real estate investment and is frequently quoted by the media including the Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Fisher was a founding trustee of The Appraisal Foundation that was formed in 1987 by the major appraisal organizations as a self-regulatory organization and source of standards for the appraisal industry. He served as President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) in 1990 and the 1986-87 Chairman of the Real Estate Center Directors and Chairholders’ Association. He has worked with many professional organizations to develop and teach courses and seminars including NCREIF, PREA, the Appraisal Institute, the CCIM Institute, NACORE and others.
Professor Fisher has a doctorate in Real Estate from Ohio State University. He is a coauthor of Real Estate, 9th edition published by John Wiley and Sons, coauthor of Real Estate Finance and Investments, 14th edition, published by McGraw-Hill, and coauthor of Income Property Valuation published by Dearborn. His books have been translated into Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
Dr. Fisher has published numerous articles in journals such as The Journal of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, The Journal of Urban Economics, The Journal of Real Estate Research, Journal of Portfolio Management, National Tax Journal, Public Finance Quarterly, The Appraisal Journal, Real Estate Review, The Real Estate Appraiser and Analyst, Real Estate Issues, The New Corporate Finance and the Journal of Property Tax Management."
Roland Füss is Professor of Real Estate Finance at the University of St.Gallen and Member of the Board of the Swiss Institute for Banking and Finance s/bf-HSG and of the School of Finance. In addition, he is a Research Associate at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany as well as a guest professor at the NTNU Business School in Trondheim, Norway. He studied economics at the University of Freiburg, Germany, from which he also obtained his doctoral degree and «habilitation». Roland Füss teaches courses in Statistics, Financial Econometrics, Real Estate Economics, and Real Estate Finance. His main research topics are in the field of empirical asset pricing, real estate finance and economics, risk management, and applied financial econometrics. His research has been published in economics and finance journals such as Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and Real Estate Economics.
"Christophe Piffaretti is a Director for Credit Suisse Asset Management (Switzerland) Ltd. He has been the Fund Manager of ‘Credit Suisse Real Estate Fund Hospitality’ –a REIT focusing on hospitality properties in Switzerland- and lately also of ‘Credit Suisse Real Estate Fund LivingPlus’ with special focus on senior housing solutions.
Upon graduating from EHL, he experienced the hospitality business first hand with Intercontinental Hotels, followed by a few years in hotel consulting & valuations. He then went on to work for Kempinski Hotels for nine years at a corporate level, first as Director Strategic Planning, then as Vice President Corporate Expansion and later as Senior Vice President Development, where he was responsible for the group's worldwide expansion and entry into key markets. His last position with Kempinski Hotels was as Managing Director of Kempinski Residences, a subsidiary created under his own initiative. Subsequently, he worked as Chief Operating Officer of La Perla International Living, an international real estate developer based in the Netherlands. In 2011, he joined the Fairmont Raffles Hotels International group (now part of AccorHotels) as Vice President Development Europe & CIS focusing on their three brands: Fairmont Hotels, Raffles Hotels and Swissôtel.
Christophe Piffaretti completed a BSc in Economics from the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne (HEC), a BSc in International Hospitality Management from the École Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL), an Executive MBA from Reims Management School in France and the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Real Estate Finance of Rochester-Bern University."
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