Yongheng Deng is a Professor and the John P. Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Business, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Before joining the Wisconsin School of Business, Professor Deng has served as a Provost’s Chair Professor of Real Estate and Finance and Director of the Real Estate Research Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was also a Professor at the University of Southern California (USC).

Professor Deng has served as the 50th President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA). He has chaired the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Real Estate, and also served as a Vice-Chair of the Forum's Global Agenda Council on Financing and Capital, Co-Chair of UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN), Singapore Chapter.

Professor Deng holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. His research pertains to a wide variety of issues in real estate finance, housing and urban economics, etc.