Ron Martin is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Cambridge, and is also a Fellow of the Cambridge-MIT Institute and a Research Associate of the Judge Business School. His main research interests are in: regional development and competitiveness; the geographies of money and finance; regional and urban labour markets; regional economic policy; and the application of economic theory to economic geography. He has published some 25 books and monographs, and more than 130 articles, on these and related themes. Ron has held editorial positions on some of the leading international journals in geography and economics: in the 1990s he edited Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and until April 2005 he was a co-editor of Regional Studies; currently he edits or is co-editor or associate editor on Cambridge Journal of Economics; Journal of Economic Geography; Géographie, Économie, Societé; and International Regional Science Review. He also edited the Critical Human Geography book series for Macmillan back in the 1980s, is a co-editor of Regions and Cities (Routledge), and has just co-edited the five volume Critical Concepts in Economic Geography (also for Routledge). Ron is one of only 8 geographers worldwide to be listed among the world’s most cited economists by

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005, and awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 2007-2010. He has undertaken major research projects for the European Commission, the UK Department of Trade and Industry, the Department of Work and Pensions, and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. He has worked closely with a number of economic consultancies, especially Cambridge Econometrics, Local Futures Group, Trends Business Research, and ECORYS.