Roberta Capello
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Maryann Feldman
University of North Carolina, USA
Susan Parnell
University of Cape Town, South of Africa
Yannis Psycharis
Panteion University, Greece
Jacques François Thisse
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
André Torre
University Paris Saclay, INRA-Agroparistech, France
Philip McCann
University Of Sheffield, UK
Plenary and Keynote Sessions
Preliminary programme, update 1 April, 2019
Platform Capitalism & Regional income disparities: the power of monopolies & finance
About the Origin of Cities
South Africa experiences in the context of urban world challenges
Regional development theories and formalised economic approaches: an evolving relationship
André Torre is 1st class Research Professor at the University Paris-Saclay, INRA (National Institute for Agronomic Research), and AgroParistech school of engineers. He is a doctor in economics and accredited to supervise research. He is President of ERSA (the European Regional Science Association), Director of the PSDR research programs (For and About Regional development), and Head of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Paris-Saclay. He is the managing editor of the Revue d’Economie Régionale et Urbaine (Journal of Regional and Urban Economics), and editorial board member of several international scientific journals. His research was for a long time at the cross roads of spatial and industrial economics, and related to the analysis of proximity relations and their role in coordination processes. It has in recent years become more multi-disciplinary and focused increasingly on questions related to land use planning and territorial and rural development processes. He has published 150 articles in peer review journals and 20 books , mostly on issues related to spatial dimensions and coordination between people or groups of stakeholders. More details on André Torre is available here.
The new landscape of regional inequalities in the European Union in the aftermath of economic crisis: analysis and policy challenges for the programming period post-2020
The Geography of Discontent: Different Narratives, Different Perspectives and Different Evidence
Philip McCann is Professor of Urban and Regional Economics in the University of Sheffield
Management School. Philip is also the Tagliaferri Research Fellow in the Department of Land Economy at
the University of Cambridge 2015-2018 and Honorary Professor of Economic Geography in the Faculty of
Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 2017-2022. He is one of the world’s most highly cited and widely published spatial economists and
economic geographers of his generation, with currently 4378 ISI-Web of Science citations, H-index= 32,
(624 citations in 2018), 5599 Scopus citations, H-index = 38, (762 citations in 2018) and 14,758 Google
Scholar citations (H-index = 57). He has won awards for his research in various countries: the 2002
Hewings Award from NARSC (North America); the 2007 Moss Madden Memorial Medal (UK and
Ireland); the 2010 ERSA 50th Anniversary Award (Europe); the 2016 Best Paper in Regional Studies Award
(International); the 2018 Best Paper in Regional Studies Award (International); and the 2019 ERSA Prize in Regional Science. His research has
generated over £4.5m/€5m in external research funding, with over £3m as a Principal Investigator. More details on Philip McCann is available here.