Andrea Chegut

Andrea Chegut is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Finance at Maastricht University. For her dissertation, Andrea is investigating the financial performance and neighborhood market impacts of energy efficient and sustainable real estate. Her most recent working paper is on the financial performance of green buildings in the UK titled The Value of Green: New Evidence from the United Kingdom. Current projects involve measuring the neighborhood externalities of green buildings and spatial econometric modeling of green buildings in real estate markets. 

Andrea is also involved in policy research for the EU 7th Framework Program BEEM-Up, which is an analysis of the valuation and uptake of energy efficiency in housing in the EU. This four year project with 28 EU-wide partners in construction, innovation and academia will result in a value analysis of "energy efficient" housing, a mass European dissemination strategy and 340 energy retrofitted housing units.  

In addition to her research Andrea is an active public speaker on sustainablity and energy efficiency  in policy and practitioner forums  such as the Royal Institue of Charterd Surveyors, IPD, Green Building Councils, EcoBuild and BREEAM.

Prior to coming to Europe, Andrea earned her BS and BA in Economics and Philosophy, respectively, from the College of Charleston, Charleston SC, US. The following three years were spent in the US capital markets at Sherman Capital Markets conducting analytics and business intelligence. In 2009, she left for Europe where she earned her MSc in Economics and Law from Utrecht University.