Maurizio d’Amato is Associate Professor in the School of Engineering, Technical University Politecnico di Bari, Italy, where he teaches real estate investment and valuation. He completed his undergraduate work in economics at the University of Bari and worked for several banks (Bank of Rome, Bank of Salento, Micos - Mediobanca) in real estate finance before entering the doctoral program in Planning, specializing in Valuation methods, at the Politecnico di Bari. He received the faculty appointment of Researcher at the Politecnico di Bari in 1999. He has been Scientific Director of the Real Estate Center of Italian Association of Real Estate Counselor (AICI). He has taught courses on real estate in Rome, Poland, Latvia, Spain, and the US. He is a recognized expert in property valuation and holds several international qualifications.Yener Coskun is an associate professor in finance with a specific focus on ESG, REITs, and (business/real estate) valuation. Asa visiting scholar, Yener studied at Wharton School, UPENN (the U.S.), in 2003 and at the University of Sheffield (the U.K.) in 2019. Yener is the author of numerous papers published in academic and industry journals. He has four published books, several peer-reviewed (in journals & books), and professional articles in finance, real estate finance, and housing macroeconomics. Among others, his studies were published in Housing Studies, Emerging Markets Review, and Empirical Economics. Coskun teaches capital markets, corporate finance, business valuation, and ESG/sustainability courses at a professional level. Dr. Coskun was visiting lecturer for the University of Sarajevo (2012-2013), Izmir University of Economics (2012-2016), Middle East Technical University (2017-2018), and University of Ljubljana (2018), and University of Sheffield (2019). He currently holds visiting lecturer positions at TED University (2019-) in Turkey and has been working for the Capital Markets Board of Turkey since 1995 as the senior regulator.
