Dr HO Kim Hin / David is an Honorary Professor, awarded by the University of Hertfordshire, England, and who has spent the last thirty one years across several sectors, which include the military, oil refining, aerospace engineering, public housing, resettlement, land acquisition, land reclamation, real estate investment and development as well as international real estate investing. He spent six years in the real estate career as part of the executive management group of Singapore Technologies at Pidemco Land Limited, and as part of the senior management team of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation's GIC Real Estate Private Limited. Schooled in development economics and in land economy at the University of Cambridge, England, he is well versed in econometric and his quantitative interests include financial economics, artificial intelligent modeling in real estate and system dynamics modeling for real estate market analysis as well as for public policy analysis. He is the member of the UK Royal Economic Society, Academic Member of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (U.S.), Fellow of the American Real Estate Society (U.S.), member of the American Economic Association (U.S.) and member of the Economic Society of Singapore as well as the Singapore Institute of Management. He holds the degrees of Master of Philosophy (1st Class Honours with Distinction), Honorary Doctor of Letters and the Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. He has published widely in top international journals as well as conferences, in chapters of international academic book publishers. Professor HO has written seven major books (including this book), undertaken many consultancies and funded research projects. He has written a total of 275 articles inclusive of 91 articles in top international refereed journalss. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Economics and Public Finance, Journal of Business Administration Research, Journal of Property Research, Property Management journal and the International Journal of Strategic Property Management. He has published widely international conferences, winning many best paper awards, in chapters of international academic book publishers, has undertaken many consultancies and funded research projects. He was Chairman, Independent Academic Advisory Board, the Nanyang Institute of Management, Singapore; a past Governor of the St Gabriel's Foundation that oversees nine schools in Singapore (till 2016); and a District Judge member of the Valuation Review Board, Ministry of Finance, Singapore and the Singapore Courts.
