REAL staff members are drawn primarily from its founding institutions, the University of Illinois and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
| Director | Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Ph.D. Washington |
| Associate Director | to be appointed |
| Senior Research Professor | Luc Anselin, Ph.D. Cornell |
| Distinguished Research Professor | Michael Sonis, Ph.D. Moscow State |
| Professor | Kieran P. Donaghy, Ph.D. Cornell University |
| Professor | Edward Feser, Ph.D. North Carolina |
| Senior Research Associate | Dr. Kurt Kratena, Mag. rer. soc. oec., Dr. rer. soc. oec. University of Vienna |
| Visiting and Affiliate Research Professors | |
| Dusan Paredes, Department of Economics at Universidad Catolica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile | |
| Patricio Aroca, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile | |
| Carlos Roberto Azzoni, University of São Paulo, Brazil | |
| Kathy Baylis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| Erik Dietzenbacher, University of Groningen, The Netherlands | |
| Chokri Dridi, University of Alberta, Canada | |
| Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Purdue University, Indiana | |
| Oliver Fritz, WIFO, Vienna, Austria | |
| Joaquim J.M. Guilhoto, University of São Paulo, Brazil | |
| Eduardo Haddad, University of São Paulo, Brazil | |
| Donald W. Jones, RCF Economic and Financial Consulting, Inc. | |
| EuiJune Kim, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea | |
| Eveline van Leeuwen, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| John Madden, Monash University, Australia | |
| Miguel A. Márquez, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain | |
| Philip McCann, University of Waikato, New Zealand | |
| Peter G. McGregor, University of Strathclyde, Scotland | |
| Louis de Mesnard, University of Dijon, France | |
| Yukako Ono, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | |
| David Pitfield, Loughborough University, United Kingdom | |
| Sergio R. Rey, San Diego State University, California | |
| William Testa, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | |
| Philip R. Israilevich | |
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| Distinguished Graduate Assistants | |
| 2010 Tae Jeong Kim [Ph.D. Economics] | |
| 2008 Cristina Miller [Ph.D. student, Economics] | |
| 2008 Laura Atuesta [Ph.D. candidate, Agricultural Consumer Economics] | |
| 2008 Soo Jung Ha [Ph.D. Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| 2005 Sang Gyoo Yoon [PhD. Economics] | |
| 2004 Marcelo Leonardo Lufin Varas [Ph.D. Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| 2002 Carolyn Dong Guo [Ph.D. Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| Yang Su Park, Ph.D. Economics. | |
| 2001 Chokri Dridi [Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics] | |
Distinguished Visiting Scholars |
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| 2009 Antonio Avedaño [Ph.D. Canditate in Economics, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona] | |
| 2009 Huayi Yu [Ph.D. Student Economics, Renmin University of China] | |
| 2008 Daisuke Nakamura [Ph.D. Economics, University of Glasgow. Scotland] | |
| Graduate Students |
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Andi Irawan [Ph.D. candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] |
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Andre Fernandes [Ph.D. candidate, Agricultural & Consumer Economics] |
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Andres Ham [Ph.D. candidate, Economics] |
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Carlos Figueroa [Ph.D student, Agricultural & Consumer Economics] |
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Chenxi Yu [Ph.D candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] |
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Claudia Vicentelo [Ph.D. candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] |
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David Hyung [B.S. student, Chemistry] |
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Deniz Ay [Ph.D candidate, Economics] |
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Esteban Lopez [Ph.D. candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] |
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Kijin Kim [Ph.D. candidate, Economics] |
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Leonardo Bonilla [Ph.D. candidate, Economics] |
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Luis Escobedo [Ph.D student, Geography] |
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Maria Edisa Soppelsa [Ph.D candidate, Economics] |
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Miao Wang [Ph.D candidate, Agricultural & Consumer Economics] |
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Minshu Du [Ph.D candidate, Urban amd Regional Planning] |
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Sungyup Chung [Ph.D. candidate, Economics] |
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Shikha Aggarwal [M.S. student, Applied Mathematics] |
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Xian Fang [Ph.D. candidate, Agricultural & Consumer Economics] |
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Yizhou Zhang [Ph.D. candidate, Agricultural & Consumer Economics] |
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Young Jo [Ph.D. candidate, Economics] |
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| Visiting Scholars |
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Profiles for past and present visitors |
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