Peter Linneman is the Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate, Finance and Public Policy at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. A member of Wharton's faculty since 1979, Peter served as the Founding Chairman of Wharton's real estate department, the Director of Wharton's Zell-Lurie Real Estate Center of 11 years and the Founding Co-Editor of The Wharton Real Estate Review.
Peter is currently Principal of Linneman Associates, a consulting firm. He serves on the boards of Equity One Inc., a shopping center REIT and JER Investors Trust Inc., a specialty real estate finance company, where he also serves on the audit committee. He has also served as a director of Bedford Property Investors, Inc. and other public real estate companies, and is a past and current director of numerous private real estate companies. Peter holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.