Patrice A Derrington

Patrice Derrington is Professor and Chairman of Strategic Academic Initiatives at the New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate. Previously, she was a Senior Fellow and Lecturer in Real Estate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and the [Marc] Holliday Professor and Director of the Columbia University M.Sc. Real Estate Development (MSRED) program.

Her teaching and research address the creation, delivery, and stewardship of the built environment through the intersection of architectural design and development dynamics, critiquing financial calculative practices, and proposing new methods, economic structures and technologies that will deliver more equitable and sustainable urban centers. At the core of this scholarship is her recently published book, Built Up: An Historical Perspective on the Contemporary Principles and Practices of Real Estate Development, 2021, London: Routledge, with its robust interrogation and application to diverse areas of scholarship in the international symposium Valuing the City.

Building on her Ph.D. (Architecture & Civil Engineering) from U.C. Berkeley and Harvard MBA, Dr Derrington added insight into the economic and financial dimensions of the urban fabric through over 20-years of “Wall Street” experience in restructuring defaulted real estate debt and syndicating property investments both in the US and internationally, managing private equity funds for major individual and institutional clients, such as David Rockefeller and Keybank, and serving as an independent board director of various publicly traded companies.

She was also appointed as Vice President of the New York State’s Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to formulate the $20B Economic Revitalization Strategy for the recovery of NYC after the devastation of Sept 11th, 2001.