Geographer
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City University of New York (CUNY) and a Miliband Fellow of the London School of Economics. His academic work has had a great influence on modern geography and he is a highly referenced author in contemporary social and political debates. According to the Thomson Reuters ISI database, he is among the twenty most cited authors in the humanities. His highly celebrated publications include The Condition of Postmodernity (Blackwell 1990), Spaces of Hope (University of California Press, 2000), A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford University Press, 2007), Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Verso, 2013), Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (Profile 2014) and The Ways of the World (Profile, 2016).