Day in the life of: Sam Chandan

From the June issue: Sam Chandan is the associate dean and head of New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, which has nearly 400 full-time graduate and undergraduate students, 14 faculty members and a roster of high-profile industry alumni. Chandan, who grew up in Canada, came onto the New York real estate scene in the mid-2000s when he served as head economist for Reis Inc. and then global chief economist for Real Capital Analytics, which bought a company he founded called Real Estate Econometrics in 2010 for an undisclosed price. He’s also the founder of Chandan Economics, which provides data and analytics to real estate lenders, investors and policymakers, and is a partner at the Chicago-based investment manager Capri Investment Group. The 43-year-old has an impressive collection of Ivy League degrees, including a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, a Ph.D. in economics from Wharton, and master’s degrees in both economics and electrical engineering from Penn. He taught economics at Dartmouth and real estate at Wharton before joining NYU last year.