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Mr.Hanlin: ESG & Valuation
AREA Press Release No. 993/2024: November 19, 2024

Dr.Sopon Pornchokchai, Ph.D. Dip.FIABCI, MRICS
President, Agency for Real Estate Affairs (AREA)

 

On Monday, November 18, 2024, there was a free Webinar: Introduction to ESG Risks in Valuation organized by FIABCI World Council of Experts.

 

Speakers

  • Mr.William A. Hanlin Jr., CPA, ICVS, CFE, CFD

         President and CEO International Association of Certified Valuation Specialist (IACVS)

Mr.Hanlin began his career in public accounting in 1969. Over the years, Mr Hanlin has acquired a unique and varied background of skills in accounting, taxation, business matters and financial management on the domestic level and for clients in various foreign countries. Mr Hanlin has been called upon to review the valuation reports of other experts during litigation and mediation. In 1994 Mr Hanlin completed a formal regimen of training in business valuations, attaining the designation as a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA). This credential was rebranded the International Certified Valuation Specialist (ICVS) in 2013. Mr Hanlin has been an instructor for many years on the subject of valuation theory and application, as well as fraud deterrence. In 2010 he was given an appointment to Adjunct Professor of Valuation by the China Central University of Finance, and Economic and Research Fellow of the Appraisal Institute Asset Appraisal Institute of Central University of Finance and Economics. He has been invited as keynote speakers for various professional forums in USA, China, Germany, Ghana, Korea, France, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brazil and so on.

 

  • Dr.Sopon Pornchokchai, PhD D.FIABCI MRICS

         President, FIABCI-Thai

He gained a PhD in land and housing from AIT and had further property valuation training from LRTI-Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and housing from KU Leuven (Belgium). Currently, Dr.Sopon is the President of FIABCI Thai, the Thai Appraisal and Estate Agents Foundation and the Agency for Real Estate Affairs, IAAO representative to Thailand and Director of Thai Real Estate Business School

His research master pieces include the discovery of 1,020 slums (1985), CAMA (computer-assisted mass appraisal) modeling (1990), forecast of 300,000 unoccupied housing units (1995 and 1998), study for property information centre (2000), roadmap for valuation, Ministry of Finance, Vietnam (2006), Ministry of Finance, Indonesia (2008), World Bank Indonesia (2010), Ministry of Finance, Cambodia (2012), UN World Cities (2015), ASEAN Property Surveys (2017), Global Municipal (2017), Bangkok Zoo relocation (2019), 28 Dam Valuation in Laos (2024).


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