Ernst Valery

Ernst Valery serves as an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he teaches Real Estate and Equity: Leveling the Playing Field in the Autumn quarter. Concurrently, he is co-managing member of SAA | EVI and founder/president of Ernst Valery Investments Corp. (EVI), a minority-owned real estate investment firm specializing in urban transitional markets across multiple U.S. states.

His educational background includes:

• Master of Science in Real Estate Development, Columbia University
• Master’s Degree in Policy Analysis and Public Administration, Cornell University
• Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Planning (International Relations concentration), Cornell University

Professor Valery holds the Mel King Community Fellowship at MIT CoLab. His research integrates strategic management with equitable real estate development, focusing on underserved urban markets, affordable housing, and poverty alleviation through social entrepreneurship. He examines financing mechanisms like Historic and New Markets tax credits while emphasizing community-driven economic growth and retail/residential demand dynamics in transitional neighborhoods.

Through teaching engagements at Booth, Cornell University (City and Regional Planning), and Columbia University (CAPStone), he mentors students in real estate strategy. His professional work with MIT CoLab involves incubating global poverty-alleviation businesses, and he oversees EVI’s mixed-use development projects spanning Maryland, D.C., Pennsylvania, Virginia, California, and New York.