Professor Ash Amin CGeog

Biography

Occupation: Professor of Geography Employer: University of Cambridge Memo: Ash is Professor of Geography and Head of Department at the University of Durham. He has a BA (Hons) in Italian Studies and a PhD in Geography, both from the University of Reading. Ash’s research focuses on varying aspects of the spatiality of contemporary economic, political and cultural change, such as regional development in Europe, the geography of Post-Fordism and globalisation, the geography of organisational learning, urban economic and political change, and the spatial politics of multi-ethnicity in both the UK and EU. Ash is a founding co-editor of the Review of International Political Economy, and co-edits City. He has been awarded the Society’s Edward Heath Award for Research on Europe, is an elected correspondent member of Società Geografica Italiana, and an elected academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.