HUGH KELLY Ph.D., CRE

Academic Director and Chair, Curriculum Committee, Fordham University Real Estate Institute

Hugh Kelly is Fordham’s Real Estate Institute director of academic affairs, member of the Executive Advisory Council, curriculum committee chair, and coordinator of the mentorship program. Previously, he was a founding faculty member of New York University’s Masters Degree in Real Estate program where he taught from 1988 through 2016.

He heads his own consulting practice, Hugh F. Kelly Real Estate Economics, which serves the private sector, governmental organizations, and not‐for‐profit agencies.

Hugh served as the Board Chair of the Counselors of Real Estate in 2014, and in November 2019 received the CRE’s highest honor, the Landauer/White Award for his professional achievements and for his civic and non-profit community work. He served six years as Board President of the affordable housing agency of Brooklyn/Queens Catholic Charities, and is presently a vice-chair of boards for corporations holding and managing the real property assets of the Brooklyn diocese.

Hugh’s book 24-Hour Cities: Real Investment Performance, Not Just Promises was published by Routledge, and won the Gold Award for books from the National Association of Real Estate Editors in 2017.

Hugh was the lead author of Emerging Trends in Real Estate from 2015 to 2020, and for Integra Realty Resources annual Viewpoint 1017 to 2021. His columns on economics and real estate appear regularly in Commercial Property Executive. He publishes regularly in real estate academic journals, as well as in philosophy.

Kelly earned his B.A. in philosophy (magna cum laude) from Cathedral College (Douglaston, New York) and his Ph.D. in real estate and the built environment at the University of Ulster, (Belfast, Northern Ireland).