Alastair Adair is Professor of Property Investment and Pro Vice Chancellor (Communication & External Affairs) at the University of Ulster. Formerly he was inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and the Built Environment.

Research interests include the dynamics of urban development and property market performance; financial aspects of development and investment appraisal; financing of urban regeneration and the international valuation research agenda.

Research has been undertaken for HMRC (evaluation of fiscal incentives for brownfield development; renovation of business premises in disadvantaged areas), DCLG/ODPM (benchmarking regeneration property performance).

In 2008 he was appointed by Minister Murphy to the Northern Ireland DRD Regional Development Strategy Review Working Group. In 2007 he was appointed by Minister Ritchie as Chair of the DSD Advisory Panel of Experts for Implementation of Sir John Semple’s Review of Affordable Housing.

Professor Adair was appointed to UK Research Assessment Exercise Town and Country Planning Sub-Panel 2008 and 2001.

In 2008 he was awarded the Richard Ratcliff Award by the American Real Estate Society “in recognition of his distinguished record of international achievement and research leadership in the areas of valuation and urban regeneration and for the advancement of the property discipline”.

Currently he is the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Property Research and is a member of the editorial board of four other international journals. He holds a PhD in Urban Development from the University of Reading. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Past President of the Irish Auctioneers and Valuers Institute.