Lawrence Yun is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Research at the National Association of Realtors. He regularly appears on CNBC, BBC, Bloomberg TV, and is often quoted in other media . Yun is also a frequent speaker at Real Estate conferences throughout the United States and abroad. In March 2008, USA Today listed him among the top 10 economic forecasters in the country.

Yun has been with NAR since 2000. Prior to that, he worked as an economic consultant to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Department of Education. While a research associate at the University of Maryland for three years, Yun developed the graduate economics curriculum for and taught free market economics in the former Soviet Union as that country transitioned from communism to a free-market system.

Yun was born in South Korea. He received his Mechanical Engineering degree from Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland. He, his wife Alla, and son James live in Arlington, Virginia.