Jim Clayton, PhD

Jim Clayton is a Professor and the Timothy R. Price Chair in Real Estate and Infrastructure at the Brookfield Centre in the Schulich School of Business at York University. Prior to joining the Schulich School of Business, Jim was Head of Real Estate Investment Strategy and Analytics for Barings (formerly Cornerstone Real Estate Advisors), where he was responsible for monitoring and forecasting real estate investment and capital market trends, advising on fund and client investment and portfolio strategy, and delivering applied research and strategic thought pieces. While at Barings, Jim was an Adjunct Professor in the Real Estate Program in the School of Business at the University of Connecticut. Prior to this, he was Director of Research at the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), and, prior to that, held faculty positions at the University of Cincinnati and Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jim is Co-Editor of the bi-annual, special real estate issue of the Journal of Portfolio Management, a Fellow and former President of the Real Estate Research Institute (RERI), a Fellow of the Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics, and a past recipient of a Hoyt Institute post-doctoral fellowship. He is a member of the PREA Research Committee and a previous Co-Chair of the PREA Research Affinity Group. Jim received a PhD from the University of British Columbia, an MA from the University of Western Ontario, and an Honors BA from Queen’s University.