Ash Amin

Professor Ash Amin FBA AcSS is a professor of geography at Durham University, UK. Born in London, he graduated from the University of Reading in 1979 with a first-class degree in Italian Studies and then gained a PhD in geography from Reading in 1986. He is a prominent and world renowned [ [http://www.spd.dcu.ie/moreilly/sh_aas.htm AAs ] ] economic geographer, with research in the areas of spaces of social, political and economic change. He is also the co-editor and founder of the journal 'Review of International Political Economy' and has written over 75 journal articles. [http://www.envplan.com/epa/editorials/a3507aw.pdf#search='Professor%20Ash%20Amin']

Awards and Fellowships

Professor Ash Amin has held and received numerous fellowship and awards in his career, including fellowships to University of Bologna, University of Copenhagen, University of Rotterdam and the University of Uppsala [http://www.envplan.com/epa/editorials/a3507aw.pdf#search='Professor%20Ash%20Amin'] . Furthermore, he was a member of the ESRC's Research Priorities Board from 1997 to 2001. At present he is in his final year as a race and ethnicity adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. [ [http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?mode=staff&id=326 Department of Geography : Geography Staff - Durham University ] ]

Ash Amin has received various awards and membership to prestigious bodies such as:
*Life Corresponding member of the Italian Institute of Geographers
*Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science
*Royal Geographical Society’s Edward Heath Prize in 1998
*Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences
*Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences [http://www.the-academy.org.uk/indexe6bf.html?fuse=academicians%CE%B1=all]
*Fellow of the British Academy [ [http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2007/amin.html British Academy Fellow: Ash Amin ] ]

A former head of the geography department, he has recently been appointed the executive director of the Institute of Advanced Study, a new think tank at the University. [http://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=4820]

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