OCHT 2010 Speakers Series Featuring Congressman Royce

PWR & The Orange County Housing Trust Present a Special Congressional Update with the Honorable Ed Royce and Prof. Kerry Vandell P.H.D. from The Center for Real Estate!

They will present an overview of the housing markets and real estate financing going forward-taking into account the actions of Congress’ Financial Services Committee as well as the future of the secondary markets. 

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 
Registration:  8:30 a.m.
Program:  9:00 a.m. to 11:00am

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE ED ROYCE (R), 40TH DISTRICT

U.S. Representative Ed Royce (R) is serving his ninth term in Congress representing Southern California’s 40th District, based in Orange County. Congressman Royce’s priorities in Congress are protecting our homeland, supporting our troops and veterans, providing meaningful tax relief for workers, protecting the budget and cutting excessive government spending, fighting crime and supporting victims of crime, strengthening education for all students, and preserving Social Security and Medicare. For the 111th Congress, Congressman Royce serves as a senior member of two important Committees in the House: Foreign Affairs and Financial Services. As a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Royce has been named Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade; member of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia.

As Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, Congressman Royce is at the forefront of some of the most important issues facing our country. The Subcommittee explores issues including the threat posed by Islamist terrorism, especially the al-Qaeda network; terrorist financing; terrorist sanctuaries and failed states; and capacity building of foreign forces to fight terrorism. The Subcommittee’s jurisdiction over nonproliferation issues is crucial given the severity of the threat of weapons of mass destruction falling into terrorist hands. Within the Financial Services Committee, Congressman Royce sits on three Subcommittees: Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises; Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit; and Oversight and Investigations.

KERRY VANDELL, PH.D.
Director
Center for Real Estate
Paul Merage School of Business
University of California, Irvine

Prof. Kerry Vandell joined the Paul Merage School faculty in July 2006 as the founding head of its new academic focus in real estate and Director of its new Center for Real Estate. He comes from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he held the Tiefenthaler Distinguished Chair in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, and was former Director of the Center for Urban Land Economics Research and Chair of the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics. He taught previously at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Southern Methodist University.

Professor Vandell has researched and consulted widely and has written or co-authored more than 80 papers which have appeared in such publications as the Journal of Finance, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Real Estate Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and the Wharton Real Estate Review. He has presented at conferences and meetings in Asia, Europe and throughout the United States and currently is serving as a board member of the Asian Real Estate Society.

He is currently a member of the Counselors of Real Estate and the Urban Land Institute and is a past president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA). He is on the editorial boards of Real Estate Economics (former co-editor), Land Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Research, Housing Policy Debate, and the International Real Estate Review. Prior to earning his PhD from MIT at the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, Professor Vandell received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering at Rice University, and a master’s in city and regional planning at Harvard University.