Joseph Ooi is Professor of Real Estate at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he is serving concurrently as Deputy Director (Development) of the Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies, Vice-Dean (Academic) of the School of Design and Environment (SDE), and Director of the Executive Certificate in Real Estate Finance (ECREF). He also pioneered the MBA with Specialisation in Real Estate in NUS and served as its first programme director. He is the President-elect of the International Real Estate Society.

Joseph has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers on real estate finance, economics and development in top real estate journals, such as Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Money, Credit & Banking, Journal of Regional Science, Regional Science & Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, and Urban Studies. A winner of multiple international research awards, including 12 manuscript prizes from the American Real Estate Society, Joseph was awarded the prestigious NUS Young Researcher Award (2005). He also sits on the editorial board of ten international real estate journals. Joseph was inducted as a Fellow of the exclusive Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate & Land Economics in 2017 for his outstanding and impactful scholarly accomplishments.

A highly versatile scholar who excels at teaching a broad range of subjects at different levels, Joseph conducts training workshops for many organisations, government agencies and professional associations, such as Ascendas-Singbridge, Frasers Centrepoint, Keppel Land, JTC Corporation, Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore (REDAS), Singapore Land Authority, Singapore Tourism Board, Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and the Egyptian Real Estate Academy. Joseph has won many teaching excellence awards, including the Outstanding Educator Award, which is the highest teaching award in NUS. Joseph is a Fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy, a unit established under the Office of Provost to spearhead the university’s efforts in promoting excellence in teaching and learning.

Joseph serves on the executive committee of Urban Land Institute (ULI), Singapore. He was External Examiner for University of Reading’s master programmes in Real Estate (2011-2014) and Board member of the Asian Real Estate Society (2012-2018) and the International Real Estate Society (2013-2017). He received the International Real Estate Society’s Achievement Award in 2008 for his outstanding contribution to research, education and practice at the international level. In 2011, he started the Executive Certificate in Real Estate Finance, which is a structured executive programme seeking to bridge knowledge in the real estate and capital markets.

Prior to joining NUS, Joseph has extensive working exposure in the local, regional and international real estate markets. Joseph obtained his B.Sc. (Estate Management) and M.Sc. (Real Estate) degrees from NUS and his PhD in Real Estate Finance from the University of Manchester (formerly UMIST).