Professor Susan Smith

Cambridge University

Susan J. Smith is Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography at the University of Cambridge, and Life Fellow at Girton College, where she was Head of House, 2009-2022. Previously she worked in the Centre for Housing Research at Glasgow University (1985-90), held the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh (1990-2004), and was Professor of Geography and an inaugural Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University (2004-9).

She has also enjoyed Honorary and Visiting Positions at RMIT University, Curtin University, the Australian National University, UCLA and the European University Institute. Funded by research councils, charitable trusts and government departments, she has most recently worked on the complex economy of housing markets, the edges of homeownership, and the relevance of housing wealth and mortgage debt to the shape of economic inequality in the long run.

Professor Rebecca L.H. Chiu

University of Hong Kong

Professor Rebecca L.H. Chiu is Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Architecture and Department of Urban Planning and Design (Department Head, 2014 – 2020) of the University of Hong Kong and the Bartlett School of Planning of University College London. She was Founder Chairman of the Asia Pacific Network for Housing Research, 2001- 2021.

Her research interests, publications and impact cases include housing and urban sustainability, comparative Asian housing policies and transferability, financialization of housing, urbanization in China and OBOR cities, compact urbanism and elderly health, age-friendly cities, and the nexuses between built and social environments. She has been appointed to government committees and advisors of consultancy firms of housing, urban planning, land, built heritage, urban renewal, environmental preservation, and public policy research funding schemes in Hong Kong and elsewhere.

Professor Richard Ronald

University of Amsterdam

Richard is Professor of Housing and Chair of Political and Economic Geographies at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). His research focuses on housing in relation to social, economic and urban transformations in Europe and Pacific Asia. He is currently Editor of Palgrave Macmillan's 'Contemporary City' book series and Chairs the board of the 'International Journal of Housing Policy' (where he was formerly Editor-in-Chief).

Richard was a Doctorate and then Postdoctoral Fellow at Kobe University in Japan in the early 2000s before moving to TU Delft in 2006 and then the University of Amsterdam in 2010. He has also been Distinguished Professor at Hong Kong Metropolitan University and Guest Professor at the University of Birmingham (UK), National University (Singapore), Kyung Hee University (South Korea), and the University of Adelaide (Australia). His most recent book (2022) is titled 'Families, Housing and Property Wealth in a Neoliberal World'.