Real Estate

Stan Melton Chair in Real Estate

David Dale- Johnson

David Dale-Johnson holds the Melton Chair in Real Estate and is a Visiting Executive Professor at the School of Retailing in the University of Alberta School of Business as well as Industry Scholar at the Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. Several years of international experience in investment and retail real estate and consulting augment his teaching and research career. He was Director of the Real Estate Program at the University of Southern California where he held appointments in the Marshall School of Business and the School of Policy, Planning and Development. He has also taught at the Sauder School of Business at UBC, the University of California at Berkeley and Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, where he assisted in the development of real estate institutions in an emerging economy. He has developed and led international business and real estate programs in Central Europe, Latin America and Asia and executive programs for BOMA, USC and local governments including the City of Los Angeles. 

David completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Science in Business Administration at the University of British Columbia and a Ph.D. in Applied Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is an expert on urban development, real estate economics and finance, has authored numerous academic articles and served on the editorial board of the academic journals in his field. As a consultant, he has worked with numerous cities in Canada and the USA, HUD, USAID and private sector investors and developers. He has provided expert testimony in the area of real estate economics and finance. He is currently chairman of the board of both a California based non-profit and an independent school in Vancouver.

Contact Information:

David Dale-Johnson
School of Retailing
3-23 Business Building,
Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R6 

780.938.3958 (Mobile)
778.995.3958 (BC Mobile)
dalejohn@ualberta.ca