After working for several real estate companies
in Taiwan, Ko came to the U.S. in 1981 to pursue graduate studies at
the University of Texas at Austin. While there, he obtained an MS in
Community and Regional Planning (1982), an MBA with a real estate
concentration (1984), and a Ph.D. in real estate and finance (1988).
While pursuing his Ph.D. degree, Ko also worked full time at a
leading real estate consulting firm and later became a partner of a
start-up consulting firm, which at its peak had 30 employees.
In 1989, Ko began his academic career as an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Finance at the University of Texas at Austin. He
joined California State University at Fullerton (CSUF) shortly
thereafter and was promoted to Full Professor in 1992. Starting in
1995, Ko began his concurrent affiliation with the Department of
Finance at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he
became a chaired real estate professor in 1999. In the same year,
the newly established School of Hotel Management at CUHK recruited
Ko to serve as its founding Director. In the following two years, he
successfully offered Hong Kong's first hospitality executive
training program, established an advisory committee consisting of
industry leaders, and placed all its students into summer
internships. While still serving as an Honorary (chaired) Professor
of CUHK, Ko returned in 2001 to CSUF as the Co-Director of the Real
Estate and Land Use Institute. He was appointed as a Visiting
Professorial Fellow by National University of Singapore in July 2003
and taught for Tsinghua University as a Visiting Professor in July
2004. In September 2005, Ko joined the Zicklin School of Business,
Baruch College, City University of New York as the Newman Chair in
Real Estate Finance and the founding chair of the Department of Real
Estate. Within two years, Ko revised a degree program (BBA in Real
Estate) and created three new degree programs (MBA in Real Estate,
MS in Real Estate, and a Ph.D. program in Real Estate within the
Finance specialization).
Ko publishes both in real estate and finance journals, which include
Real Estate Economics (14), Journal of Real Estate Research (10),
Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and
Economics(2), International Real Estate Review (4), Journal of
Business, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics,
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Review of
Financial Studies. He also co-authored a book on Real Estate
Investment Trusts (Oxford University Press: New York), co-edited a
monograph on Real Estate Valuation Theory (Kluwer Academic
Publishers: Boston), and co-wrote 19 teaching cases and teaching
notes on real estate and finance issues faced by firms in Asia
(distributed by Harvard Business School Publishing and European Case
Clearing House). He has another co-authored book (on real estate
markets and cycles) under contract with Oxford University Press (New
York).
Ko is the editor of Journal of Real Estate Research (since 1998),
founding executive editor of International Real Estate Review (since
1997) and co-executive editor of the Journal of Housing Studies
(since 2006). As the editor, Ko successfully placed JRER into the
coverage of SSCI. He has served on editorial boards of 7 journals,
was a keynote speaker at a conference, serves on the board of
several organizations, received the achievement award from the
International Real Estate Society, and appointed as a Fellow of
several organization. Ko chaired the founding meeting of the Asian
Real Estate Society (AsRES) in 1996 and has served as its Executive
Director until 2002. In 2000, 2007 and 2008, Ko was the co-chairman
for the 5th Annual AsRES Meeting held in Beijing (with 575
participants, it is probably the largest real estate conference in
the world to date), the 12th Annual AsRES Meeting held in Macau and
the 13th Annual AsRES Meeting held in Shanghai. In 2008, Professor
Wang serves as the chair the founding meeting and the
Secretary-General of the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress (GCREC).
He also provides consultancy services, offers executive training,
and conducts research projects for firms and government bodies in
the United States, Japan, Mainland China, and Hong Kong.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Teaching: Real Estate, Corporate Finance, and Investments.
Research: Real Estate Investment, Corporate Finance, and Real Estate
Markets.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin (September 1985 - August 1988),
Real Estate and Finance Concentrations.
MBA University of Texas at Austin (September 1983 - August 1984),
Finance and Real Estate Concentrations.
MS in CRP University of Texas at Austin (September 1981 - December
1982), Community and Regional Planning.
LLB Chinese Culture University (September 1973 - May 1977), Urban
Affairs Concentration.
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