Dr. Jamie Peck

Jamie Peck of the University of British Columbia is one of the most prolific and highly cited geographers in the world, with over 200 publications including 13 books. His main contributions have been in labour studies, urban political economy, critical policy analysis and neoliberalism and they have been highly influential in sociology and urban studies as well as in geography. He is a leading advocate for spatially-sensitive analysis across the economic sciences. His work has been widely reprinted and translated into more than a dozen languages.