A CIRANO Associate Researcher and Fellow since 1999, Andrey Pavlov is Professor at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. He is also Fellow of the Ziman Real Estate Center at the University of California, Los Angeles and Member of the editorial boards of Real Estate Economics and the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

Holding a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of California, Los Angeles, he specializes in mortgage-backed securities pricing and commercial and residential market risk management. He has also worked on the modeling of aggressive lending practices, risk management for publicly traded real estate companies, mortgage and equity securitization, and mortgage default risk.

He was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania during the 2006 – 2008 period. Since then he has continuously taught real estate finance for numerous Wharton Executive Education programs.

He is a winner of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute Best Dissertation Award (2000) and a post-doctoral honoree of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute (2005).

He has a wide range of academic and industry-oriented publications.

He is a sought-after speaker, author, and consultant for both the public and private sectors. He has recently consulted for the U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, major mortgage lenders, banks, insurers, and hedge funds.