Dr. Peter Linneman is the Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate, Finance, and Public Policy at the Wharton School of Business, the University of Pennsylvania. A member of Wharton's faculty since 1979, he served as the founding chairman of Wharton's Real Estate Department, and was the Director of Wharton's Zell-Lurie Real Estate Center for 13 years. He is the founding co-editor of The Wharton Real Estate Review. His teaching and research focuses on real estate and investment strategies, mergers and acquisitions, and international markets. He has published over 60 articles during his career.

Dr. Peter Linneman is widely recognized as one of the leading strategic thinkers in the real estate industry, and was recently named one of the 25 most influential people in real estate by Realtor Magazine. He is also a co- coordinator/sponsor/moderator (with Sam Zell) of the prestigious industry roundtable, The Marshall Bennett Classic.

Dr. Linneman is the principal of Linneman Associates and the founder and Principal of the American Growth Land Fund, a $100 million investment vehicle that invests in long term land developments in high growth areas of the US. In addition, he is a partner in Gerber-Taylor Realty Fund III, a real estate fund-of-funds. His quarterly research publication, Linneman Letter, claims more than 120 leading real estate firms as subscribers. This publication is widely read throughout the real estate industry, and is viewed as a major thought leader in the business. For more than 25 years he has provided strategic and financial advice to leading corporations, including: American Asset Corp, Sunbelt Management, Lubert-Adler Realty Funds, Paramount Group, General Electric and IBM.

Dr. Linneman holds both Masters and Doctorate degrees in economics from the University of Chicago.