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 |
| Research Associate Professor | Kieran P. Donaghy, Ph.D. Cornell University |
| Research Associate Professor | Edward Feser, Ph.D. North Carolina |
| Senior Research Associate | to be appointed |
| Assistant to the Director | Gerry Ann Gallagher |
| Visiting and Affiliate Research Professors | |
| Patricio Aroca, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile | |
| Carlos Roberto Azzoni, University of São Paulo, Brazil | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Sergio R. Rey, San Diego State University, California | |
| William Testa, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | |
| Philip R. Israilevich | |
| Distinguished Graduate Assistants | |
| 2005 Sang Gyoo Yoon [PhD candidate, Economics] | |
| 2004 Marcelo Leonardo Lufin Varas [Ph.D. Candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| 2002 Carolyn Dong Guo [Ph.D. Candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| Yang Su Park, Ph.D. Economics. | |
| 2001 Chokri Dridi [Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics] | |
| Graduate Students |
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Jose De Leon [Master student, Geography] |
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| Soo Jung Ha [Ph.D. candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| Jae Hong Kim [Ph.D. student, Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| Jee-Sun Lee [Ph.D. candidate, Geography] | |
| Jaewon Lim [Ph.D. candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| Marcelo L. Lufin-Varas [Ph.D. candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| Seryoung Park [Ph.D. candidate, Economics] | |
| Johana Robles [Ph.D candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| Saket Sarraf [Ph.D candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| Tubagus Furgon Sofhani [Ph.D candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| Carlos Eduardo Silva [Ph.D candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| A K M Riaz Uddin [Ph.D candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| Paksi Walandouw [Ph.D candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] | |
| Yu Xiao [Ph.D candidate, Urban and Regional Planning] | |
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| Visiting Scholars |
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Profiles for past and present visitors |
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