Peng (Peter) Liu

Peng (Peter) Liu is a full professor of real estate and finance at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business. He has been the Singapore Tourism Board Distinguished Professor in Asian Hospitality Management at the Nolan School of Hotel Administration since 2016 and became an inaugural faculty member of the Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate in 2023. His research examines how financial markets interact with the real economy, including commercial real estate, commodities, hospitality markets, securitization, and REITs. Before academia, he worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management in New York and Deloitte Consulting in Beijing, and was a research fellow at UC Berkeley’s Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics from 2002 to 2007. He earned a Ph.D. in real estate and finance and an M.S. in finance from UC Berkeley, an M.A. in financial economics from Peking University, and a B.S. in engineering from Tsinghua University.