Prof. Liu graduated from the National University of Singapore and has been with the School of Tourism Management at Sun Yat-sen University since 2013. He currently serves as Assistant Dean of the School and holds the title of Yat-sen Pioneer Scholar. His research spans regional studies, globalization, industrial upgrading, and AI/big data applications, across the […]
Zack Tayor is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Specializing in comparative urban political economy, the multi-level governance of cities, and political geography, his work lies at the intersection of political science, urban geography, planning studies, and urban sociology. He is a fellow at the Institute on Municipal and […]
Imogen Liu is Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Prior to joining the VU in 2023, she was a PhD candidate at Maastricht University where her dissertation focused on the transnational integration of Chinese state capital in Europe. Situated at the intersection of political economy, economic geography and development studies, […]
Professor Shenjing He joined the Department of Urban Planning and Design at The University of Hong Kong in January 2015. She served as Associate Dean (Research Postgraduate Studies) for the Faculty of Architecture at HKU from January 2020 to August 2021. Prior to joining HKU, she was Professor and Assistant Dean at the School of Geography […]
Alex Shuai Shi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Real Estate and Construction of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; Deputy Director of the surveying undergraduate program; Fellow of HKU Urban System Institute and Real Estate Lab. He also holds an HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall visiting fellowship. As an urban economist, his research […]
Ron Boschma is full professor in Regional Economics at Utrecht University, and Professor 2 at UiS Business School of Stavanger University. Boschma has been full professor in Innovation Studies at Lund University where he was also director of the Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE). He is member of the […]
Ugo Fratesi is Full Professor of Regional Economics and Policy at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. From June 2023, he is the Editor in Chief of Spatial Economic Analysis. Previously, for eight years until 2021, he was Editor of main section papers and Book Review Editor of Regional Studies and, for five years until 2012, of […]
Jennifer Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is also a Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning with the School of Business at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has authored numerous articles, chapters, […]
Dariusz Wójcik is Professor at the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, and Fellow of St Peter’s College. His research focuses on economic geography, corporate governance, and finance. His book The Global Stock Market (Oxford 2011) explores the role of stock markets in the world economy. His book co-authored with Gordon L. Clark […]
Sarah Ayres is Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Bristol, UK. Her central research interest is the governance of place, space and territory. This core provides the basis for two main strands of work. First, her research is concerned with devolution and decentralisation in both a UK and an international context, […]
Madeleine is the founding Director of Yellowback (www.ybediting.com), a publishing and editorial services company. She works with publishers and learned societies to manage and strengthen their publication portfolios and peer review processes. Madeleine has worked with the Regional Studies Association since 2013. She has a PhD in Geography from Royal Holloway, University of London, and […]