Stuart Gabriel is the Arden Realty Chair and Professor of Finance and Director of the Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA. An expert in real estate finance and economics, Professor Gabriel applies the tools of economics and finance to analysis of housing, housing finance, real estate and urban economies. One of his recent research studies found significant and compelling increases in house price returns across the vast number of metropolitan areas in the U.S. during the period of financial crisis and beyond.

He currently holds a visiting professor position at the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University, where he is involved in research that relates to Israeli housing and mortgage markets. Gabriel’s fluency in Hebrew has come in handy when traveling to Israel with students for UCLA Anderson global immersion programs. He has also led trips to Mexico, Chile, Shanghai, Tokyo, Japan and Brazil.

Earlier in his career, Gabriel served on the economics staff of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., and as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He previously held the position of president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. He has testified before Congress and the California State Legislature on topics related to the 2000s financial crisis.

He serves on the editorial boards of seven academic journals and has published approximately 80 academic papers. In 2015, Gabriel and his family earned Jewish World Watch’s annual Global Soul award in recognition of their service and allegiance to the organization and its mission to curb, heal and intercept genocide worldwide.