Allen J. Scott - Emeritus Professor, UCLA

    Allen J. Scott

Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California – Los Angeles. Author of numerous books and papers on questions of economic and urban geography and associated policy issues: A World In Emergence. Cities and Regions in the 21st Century, Chelthenam, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2012; Social Economy of the Metropolis: Cognitive-Cultural Capitalism and the Global Resurgence of Cities, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008; Geography and Economy (Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Awarded the Prix Vautrin Lud in 2003, the Carol and Bruce Mallen Lifetime Achievement Award for Published Scholarly Constributions to the Motion Picture Industry, 2008, the Anders Retzius Gold Medal in 2009, and a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Jena in 2011. He currently lives in Paris.