NEW YORK CITY-Beginning what he calls “a new period in my life,”Trinity Real Estate’s former president, Carl Weisbrod, is movinginto academia. Before he teaches his first class, though, he’ll beback in an accustomed role, which is to get something off theground. He was founding president of the New York City EconomicDevelopment Corp. in 1990 and later served in a similar capacity atthe Alliance for Downtown New York; at New York University, he’llspearhead the development of the university’s new curriculum inglobal real estate.

“I’m going to spend the first several months trying to plot thisout,” Weisbrod tells GlobeSt.com. Working closely with JamesStuckey, divisional dean of NYU’s Schack Instiute of Real Estate,Weisbrod will help guide the implementation of courses andrecruitment of faculty for the new program. He’ll also continue toserve as a consultant to Trinity Real Estate, where he oversaw asix-million-square-foot commercial portfolio.

Weisbrod says it’s too soon to tell what those courses will looklike. He adds, however, “The world has become increasingly global.We think of real estate as being perhaps the most local of issuesand disciplines, but in fact it also has become increasinglyglobal.”