When making the appointment, Whittington said, "It's a unique opportunity to be able to appoint a professor that brings a rare combination of academic and senior level professional experience to his teaching and scholarly research, and we welcome the expertise that Wurtzebach will share with the DePaul community."

Dr. Wurtzebach has been serving as the visiting professor since 2009 and has lectured in undergraduate and graduate courses, participated in faculty research projects, and supported the activities of the Real Estate Center at DePaul. He is also a founding sponsor of The Real Estate Center and, in 2008, he funded the Charles H. Wurtzebach and Susan M. Marshall Endowed Scholarship Fund which provides funding for students to travel to real estate conferences and meetings across the country.




This permanent appointment is funded by a $1.5 million gift from DePaul Trustee George A. Ruff, co-founder of Trinity Hotel Investors and a founding sponsor of The Real Estate Center, and enables the college's Department of Real Estate to recruit leading scholars to the faculty. We are delighted to count Dr. Wurtzebach as a permanent member of our faculty.

Wurtzebach's previous experience includes serving as managing director and property chief investment officer (CIO) at Henderson Global Investors Inc. where he was responsible for strategic portfolio planning and overall management of Henderson's North American business, which included institutional equity, property, retail equity and fixed-interest investment products.  As property CIO he worked directly with the firm's property portfolio managers developing client investment strategies. A member of Henderson's global senior management team, he also chaired Henderson's North American Property Investment and Management Committee.  Prior to joining Henderson, Wurtzebach was president and chief executive officer of Heitman Capital Management and president of JMB Institutional Realty. 

In academia, Wurtzebach was the director of the Real Estate and Urban Land Economics program within the Graduate School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin in the mid-1980s.  He is co-author or co-editor of several books, including "Modern Real Estate," co-authored with Mike Miles, and "Managing Real Estate Portfolios," co-edited with Susan Hudson-Wilson.  He also has penned numerous academic and professional articles.  

A frequent featured speaker at professional and academic gatherings, he was the 1994 recipient of the prestigious Graaskamp Award for Research Excellence presented by the Pension Real Estate Association.  Wurtzebach is a member of the American Real Estate Society and a past president and director of the Real Estate Research Institute. He earned a doctoral degree in finance from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an MBA in finance from Northern Illinois University and a bachelor of science degree in business from DePaul.