Emily Youssouf joins NYU Schack Institute

According to The NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate, former president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. (HDC) Emily Youssouf, one of the industry's leading experts on CRE investment and development, has joined the NYU Schack faculty as a clinical associate professor. Youssouf will begin her first fall term at NYU Schack by teaching courses on real estate finance and affordable housing. "Few if any individuals can match Emily Youssouf's professional background and deep knowledge of the finance and real estate industries,"said NYU Schack Institute divisional dean James Stuckey. "Her arrival at NYU Schack is fantastic news for our students, who will benefit tremendously from Emily's critical thinking and analysis of both the public and private sector real estate capital markets." Youssouf was appointed president of HDC by mayor Michael Bloomberg in November 2003. She served as president of the HDC until 2007. Youssouf has an extensive investment banking background in housing finance, loan securitization, and structuring innovative financing strategies. Under her direction, HDC became the number one issuer of multi-family affordable housing bonds in the country in 2004 and 2005. Prior to joining HDC, Youssouf served as the president of Natlis Settlements, LLC, a specialty finance company. Youssouf also has held various senior positions over a 20-year period at Credit Suisse First Boston, Prudential Securities and Merrill Lynch. Youssouf began her financial services career at Standard & Poor's where she was vice Ppresident of the Tax-Exempt Housing Finance Group. She is an honors graduate of Wagner College and holds an M.A. in Urban Affairs and Policy Analysis from the New School. The NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate (www.scps.nyu.edu/schack) was founded in 1967, at the initiative of prominent real estate leaders who encouraged NYU to establish an academic center that provided an educational foundation for professionals within their industry. Today, NYU Schack is home to graduate degree and related graduate certificate programs-notably the M.S. in Real Estate and the M.S. in Construction Management-which enroll some 700 full and part-time students from more than 30 countries and have nearly 2,500 alumni degree-holders around the globe. In addition, each year approximately 7,200 working professionals enroll in the Institute's professional certificate programs, noncredit courses, and licensure-related offerings in such areas as real estate finance, sales and brokerage, sustainable design, facilities management, and architecture and civil engineering. The Institute also houses the NYU REIT Center and the Center for the Sustainable Built Environment and hosts key industry events, including annual conferences on Real Estate Capital Markets and REITs. NYU Schack is one of several comprehensive academic divisions within the School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS), the NYU home for study and applied research related to key knowledge-based industries where the New York region leads globally. About the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies Established in 1934, NYU-SCPS (www.scps.nyu.edu) is one of NYUÂ’s several degree-granting schools and colleges, each with a unique academic profile. The reputation of NYU-SCPS arises from its place as the NYU home for study and applied research related to key knowledge-based industries where the New York region leads globally. This is manifest in the SchoolÂ’s diverse graduate, undergraduate, and continuing education programs in fields such as Real Estate and Construction Management; Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management; Global Affairs; Philanthropy and Fundraising; Graphic Communications Media, Publishing, and Digital Arts; Human Capital Management, Marketing, and Public Relations; with complementary strengths in the Liberal and Allied Arts, Translation and Interpreting, Management and Information Technology, and Finance and Taxation. More than 100 distinguished full-time faculty members collaborate with an exceptional cadre of practitioner/adjunct faculty and lecturers to create vibrant professional and academic networks that attract some 4,200 degree-seeking students from every corner of the region and the world. In addition, the School fulfills the recurrent continuing higher education needs of local and professional communities, as evidenced by 55,000 annual enrollments in individual courses, specialized certificate programs, conferences, workshops, seminars, and public events.