Name： Peter Taylor

Current Position:

Professor of Geography 

Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC)Research Network

Education:

B.A., Ph.D (Liverpool), AcSS, FBA, D.Phil (Oulu)

Professional Experience:

Founder and Director of Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network, 1998 - present

Held (paid) visiting positions in 11 non-UK universities from 1970 to 2005 (Iowa, Alberta, Clark, Dartmouth, Illinois, Binghamton, Virginia Tech (3 times (including CC Garvin Chair in 2002-3)), Delaware, Paris, Amsterdam, Ghent)

Fellowships:

Presented with Francqui Medal (Brussels) 

University of Ghent Medal in 2005 to mark tenure of the International Inter-university

Francqui Chair in 2004-5

1994-6 Member of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Future of the Social Sciences

Chair of the Department’s Research Committee and former Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities.

Prizes and Awards:

Awarded an “Honorary Doctorate” by Ghent University in 2008 

Awarded “Honorary Doctorate” by Oulu University in 2006

 Designated for 2003 Distinguished Scholarship Honors by the Association of American Geographers

Elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) in 2001

Elected a Fellow of the British Academy, 2004

Publications and Papers:

Be author of over 300 publications of which 60 plus have been translated into one or more of 23 languages. Of more than 20 books his most recent are:

 World City Network: a Global Urban Analysis (Routledge, 2004),

Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation –State, Locality (Prentice Hall, 2006, fifth edition with Colin Flint),

Cities in Globalization: Practices,Policies and Theories (Routledge, 2006, edited with Ben Derudder, Pieter Saey and Frank Witlox).

Founding editor：

 Founding editor of Political Geography (Quarterly) in 1982 and Review of International Political Economy in 1992

Current Research Interests

Focus on world/global cities in contemporary globalization: hence the creation of GaWC.