Dr. Siqi Zheng is the STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability at Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Center for Real Estate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (http://siqizheng.mit.edu). She established MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab (http://sul.mit.edu) in 2019, and MIT China Future City Lab in 2017 (which later became the “China Future City Program” under the new Sustainable Urbanization Lab), and is the faculty director of her Lab. Prof. Zheng was the former President of Asian Real Estate Society (2018-2019) and is on its Board now, and she is also on the Board of American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA). She is the Associate Editor of China Economic Review, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Economic Surveys, and is on the editorial board of Journal of Housing Economics and Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA).

Prof. Zheng’s field of specialization is urban and environmental economics, with a special focus on China and developing countries, including the environmental sustainability, place-based policies (new planned cities and transportation infrastructure) and self-sustaining urban growth.