UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate

Tim Kawahara is the founding Executive Director of the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate, a joint research center of the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA School of Law. Tim is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Center, including the development, implementation and oversight of the Center's numerous programs and activities. As the Center's founding executive director, Tim has guided the Center through a period of immense growth leading to global recognition.

Tim serves on several boards, including the Urban Land Institute’s Los Angeles District Council (ULI), were he also serves as chair of the ULI Housing Council; Lambda Alpha International (LAI), an honorary society for the advancement of land economics; and Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW). He has cultivated numerous strategic partnerships with both public and private organizations and institutions. Tim serves as an expert resource to the media, and frequently speaks to audiences on a wide range of topics related to real estate and the built environment.

Tim is a graduate of UCLA and the Executive Program of the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Stephen Day Cauley is the project manager for the CRSP/Ziman REIT Data Series for the Ziman Center. Dr. Cauley previously served as the Ziman Center's Associate Director for Research and as a Visiting Scholar in Finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he taught real estate investments. His research involves the application of recent advances in economics, finance and statistics to the valuation of publicly and privately held real estate. As part of this research, he has developed innovative statistical and visualization techniques to analyze spatial variation in real estate markets.

Dr. Cauley has held academic and research positions at the UCLA Department of Economics, and at the RAND Corporation. Additionally, he was licensed as a real estate broker by the State of New Mexico where he was a principal of a firm that formed and managed real estate limited partnerships. Dr. Cauley earned his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.

Contact:
stevecauley.ziman@anderson.ucla.edu

Nicole McAllister Vermeer has served in a variety of executive and board leadership positions in high-performing, mission-driven organizations for over 20 years specializing in raising strategic capital, external relations, launching social impact initiatives, ESG operations, institutional advancement, and private enterprise governance.  She currently is the Senior Director of Advancement of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Anderson School of Management Ziman Center for Real Estate where she leads the external affairs, corporate strategy, fundraising, and new initiatives of a university-wide policy center within UCLA where she has raised $40M in support of UCLA’s 2020 $5.4B Centennial Campaign and the university’s educational, research, and public service missions. 

Prior to arriving at UCLA, she was the Vice President of Development and External Affairs for the Pacific Council on International Policy, the international policy think tank affiliated with the University of Southern California chaired by late U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher. Previously she served as the Executive Director of Development and External Affairs of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, securing over $25M in capital initiatives for research, education, and social impact programs.  She began her career as a nonprofit affordable housing developer and community development advocate in South Central Los Angeles for Dunbar Economic Development Corporation and Hollywood Community Housing Corporation.

Nicole has served on the boards of several organizations and currently is the board Co-Chair of Affordable Living for the Aging and on the Board of the Los Angeles Mission and Fund Development Committee of Abode Communities in Los Angeles. In 2010 she co-founded Social Capital Philanthropists, a crowdfunded grant-making collective in Los Angeles that supported women and children. She earned an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business, a master’s degree in Urban Planning from UCLA, and a bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies and Planning magna cum laude from the University of California San Diego.

Christina Green is the Associate Director of Budget and Finance and Program Director of the Housing as Health Care Initiative at the Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Christina developed and launched the Housing as Health Care Initiative in 2018 to bring attention to critical issues at the intersection of housing, the built environment, and health. From housing affordability and well-building to community-based health care and climate change adaptation, Christina builds strategic partnerships across disciplines with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, industry and community leaders, policymakers, and students. The goal of this initiative is to convene thought leaders, develop community, increase understanding, and discuss solutions through seminars, symposia, and roundtable discussions. As part of this work, Christina is currently supporting the California Integrated Care at Home Working Group to develop and advance a transformative statewide housing-based population health care coordination system (modeled after Supports and Services at Home) for California’s growing vulnerable aging population.

Previously, Christina worked for health care and nonprofit organizations, including Pfizer, Health Technology Associates, Spinal Cord Injuries Australia, and Clean Up Australia, where she focused on cultivating meaningful partnerships across sectors to promote human health and well-being.

Christina has an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MPH from the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and a BA in the History of Science and Medicine from Yale College. She is an active volunteer in her local community and at her sons’ high school. She is currently serving as a Chapter Board Member/Treasurer of the National League of Young Men, a structured nonprofit organization for mothers and sons that promotes the development of young men into community leaders.