Milena Petrova is a professor of finance at Whitman and is affiliated with Whitman’s James D. Kuhn Real Estate Center. Petrova teaches the courses Real Estate Principles and Financial Management and her research interests are in real estate capital markets, REITs, commercial real estate, corporate finance and corporate governance.

Before joining the Whitman family, Petrova worked as a consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton and as a project finance analyst for Finland’s official Export Credit Agency, Finnvera. Petrova has also trained and consulted for real estate and investment professionals in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.

Petrova has an impressive list of publications in journals including Real Estate Economics and the Journal of Applied Finance. She was also awarded the CoStar 2007 award for best paper using commercial real estate data and the Gerald R. Brown 2003 Award for best paper on “Real Estate and Finance” from the Asian Real Estate Society.