About Us

The Commission’s Mission is:

To extend international research and scholarship in economic geography through

• the development and dissemination of critical theoretical, conceptual and methodological frameworks
• the conduct of rigorous empirical and policy analyses
• and the building of research capacity in economic geography in different national and institutional contexts

To promote international collaboration in research activity and the dissemination of research findings.

To facilitate knowledge transfer about economic geography and associated policy-related issues between countries and institutions.

Chair: Michael Taylor, Department of Geography, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Email: m.j.taylor@bham.ac.uk

Vice Chair: Neil Reid, Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606 USA
Email: nreid@utnet.utoledo.edu

Montserrat Pallares Barbera, Department of Geography, Autonomous University, Barcelona, Spain
Email: montserrat.pallares@uab.es

Daniel Felsenstein, Department of Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Email: msdfels@mscc.huji.ac.il
IGU Congress Liason 2010 Congress, Israel

Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, Department of Geography, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Email: m.fromhold-eisebith@geo.rwth-aachen.de

Hege Knutsen, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1096 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway
Email: h.m.knutsen@sgeo.uio.no

Jeong Hyop Lee, Science & Technology Policy Institute, 26F1., Specialty Construction Center 395-70, Shindaebang-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-714, Korea (2006-2008)
Email: jhlee@stepi.re.kr

Charles Mather, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of Witwaterstrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa
Email: charles.mather@wits.ac.za

Paul Plummer, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Email: pplummer@ucalgary.ca

Bill Pritchard, School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Email: b.pritchard@geosci.usyd.edu.au

Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Email: HenryYeung@nus.edu.sg

Jici Wang, Geographic Science Research Centre, Peking University, Beijing, China
Email: wjc@pku.edu.cn