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COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE'S ECONOMIC ADVISORS
MEET THE TEAM
SAM CHANDAN, PHD
Founder & Non-Executive Chairman
Dr. Sam Chandan is the Founder and Chairman of Chandan Economics.
Dr. Chandan has served as dean of the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate, the world's largest academic center of real estate teaching and research, since 2016. He holds the Larry & Klara Silverstein Chair in Real Estate Development and Investment at NYU and is a Fellow at the NYU Urban Lab and the NYU CREFC Center for Real Estate Finance.
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For more information about Dr. Chandan and his research and industry engagement, visit SamChandan.com.
JONATHAN O'KANE
Vice President & Head of Research
Jonathan is the Vice President and Head of Research at Chandan Economics and oversees the firm’s day-to-day operations and management of partnerships.
Drawing on years of experience analyzing multifamily capital markets and economic currents, Jonathan supports Chandan Economics’ content partners in exploring critical developments in the commercial real estate environment.
​Jonathan also works closely with Dr. Sam Chandan in charting the firm's long-term strategy. His research focuses on macroeconomic trends in real estate and spans multiple subject areas including single-family
rentals, multifamily loans, affordable housing, and independently managed properties.
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Jonathan received his Master of Science in Real Estate from the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate, where he was accepted as a member of the selective Hirsh Fellows Program. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Pace University. He joined Chandan Economics in 2014.
JASON M. DAVIS
Senior Analyst, Economics and Policy
Jason M. Davis is the Senior Analyst of Economics and Policy at Chandan Economics.
Leveraging years of experience analyzing the US economic and policy landscape, Jason’s research focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic trends, public policy developments, and real estate markets.
His work cuts across the spectrum of related topics and includes the analysis of labor and capital markets, monetary policy forecasting, examining structural inequities in housing, and assessing the potential impact of the domestic and global political environments. Drawing on a background in Media Production, Jason also spearheads Chandan Economics’ media operations and helps integrate the creative latitudes of storytelling into the data-rigorous world of economics.
Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics from Pace University and a Master of Science in Public Policy and Governance from the University of Amsterdam. Jason joined Chandan Economics in 2020. Prior to that, he worked in Health Care Administration at CVS and, in 2017 co-founded 322x Productions & Creations, an independent production and media company based in Philadelphia, PA
ADVISORY BOARD
RON JOHNSEY
Chief Executive Officer
ThinkWhy
Ron Johnsey is the Founder and CEO of ThinkWhy. The company’s flagship product, LaborIQ™, is a dynamic platform that helps employers understand metro performance, talent supply and demand, salaries by occupation and benchmark individual and team salaries, with actionable answers to support strategic business planning.
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A real estate industry visionary, Ron was Founder and CEO of Axiometrics for 25 years prior to his founding ThinkWhy. Widely regarded as the real estate industry's leading apartment data and research firm, he sold Axiometrics to RealPage in 2017.