Andrey D. Pavlov specializes in risk management for real estate, financial derivatives and digital currency investments at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, where he is professor of finance. He has also worked on the modelling of aggressive lending practices, risk management for publicly traded real estate companies, and mortgage and equity securitization.

He earned his Ph.D. from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles (1999) and was a visiting Associate Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania during the 2006 – 2008 period. Since then he has continuously taught real estate finance for the Wharton Executive Education program. He is a fellow of the Ziman Real Estate Center at UCLA, a winner of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute Best Dissertation Award (2000), and a post-doctoral honoree of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute (2005).

Professor Pavlov has a wide range of academic and industry-oriented publications. He has consulted for the U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Government of Canada, the Government of British Columbia, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and private sector insurers, mortgage lenders and hedge funds.