Prof Ash Amin

Career: Univ of Durham: prof of geography, head Dept of Geography 2002-05, exec dir Inst of Advanced Study 2006-11; chair in geography Dept of Geography Univ of Cambrige 2011-; fell Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study in the Social Sciences 1999 and 2011; visiting posts: Univ of Naples, Univ of Bologna, Univ of Copenhagen, Univ of Rotterdam; memb Research Priorities Bd ESRC 1997-2001, memb Cncl European Assoc for Evolutionary Political Economy until 2002; AcSS 2000, fell World Acad of Art and Science 2003, FBA 2007

Books and Publications: Technological Change, Industrial Restructuring and Regional Development (jt ed, 1986), Towards a New Europe? (jt ed, 1991), Post-Fordism: A Reader (ed, 1994), Globalisation, Institutions and Regional Development in Europe (jt ed, 1994), Behind the Myth of European Union (jt ed, 1995), Beyond Market and Hierarchy: Interactive Governance and Social Complexity (jt ed, 1997), Cities for the Many not the Few (jtly, 2000), Placing the Social Economy (jtly, 2002), Cities: Reimaging the Urban (jtly, 2002), Decentering the Nation: A Radical Approach to Regional Inequality (jtly, 2003), Architectures of Knowledge: Firms, Capabilities and Communities (jtly, 2004), The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader (jt ed, 2005), Thinking About Almost Everything: New Ideas to Light Up Minds (jt ed, 2009), The Social Economy: International Perspectives on Economic Solidarity (ed, 2009), Land of Strangers (2012)