Sing Tien Foo is the Provost’s Chair Professor at the Department of Real Estate, Business School. He is the former Director of the Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies (IREUS) (2017-2022), the former Head of the Department of Real Estate (2020-2022) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the past President of the Asian Real Estate Society (AsRES) (2019-2021). He has served on the Boards of AsRES (since 2000) and the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress (GCREC) (since 2008).

Tien Foo is the current Editor of the International Real Estate Review (IRER) (since 2020) – an official journal of AsRES and GCREC. He is the Post-doctoral Honoree (2012) and Fellow (2017) of the US-based Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics, the Homer Hoyt Institute.

Tien Foo serves as a Member of the Panel of Assessors of the Appeal Board (Land Acquisition), Ministry of Law, Singapore (since 2010), and a Member of the Valuation Review Board, Ministry of Finance (2019-2021), and a Member of the Professional Development Committee (or formerly known as Examination and Professional Development Committee) of the Council for Estate Agencies (CEA), Ministry of National Development (2014-2018). He serves on the Singapore Chapter Board and Singapore Advocacy Committee of Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (APREA) (2021-present). He is also the Honorary Advisor of the PropTech Association of Singapore (SPTA) (2018) and the Singapore Estate Agencies Association (SEAA) (2019-2021).

Tien Foo holds a Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Philosophy in Land Economy from the University of Cambridge, U.K., and a Bachelor of Science with 1st Class Honours in Estate Management from NUS.