Matthew L. Cypher currently leads the Steers Center for Global Real Estate at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and is the Atara Kaufman Professor of Real Estate at the school. He also is the academic director of the school’s M.S. in Global Real Assets and oversees real estate courses for undergraduate and graduate students.

Cypher was the Director of Underwriting at Invesco Real Estate prior to his position at Georgetown University. He was a member of the firm’s Investment Committee and Investment Strategy Group. He currently sits on the board of Global Medical REIT and is the chairman of their Investment Committee.

He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Texas A&M University and a B.S. from the Pennsylvania State University. His research has been published in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, and the Journal of Property Research. He also actively writes for trade-level publications such as Urban Land.