Ash Amin FBA AcSS (born 31 October 1955 in Kampala, Uganda)[1] is a professor of geography at the University of Cambridge[2] and formerly at Durham University, UK. 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[3] 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.[4]
Professor Ash Amin has held and received numerous fellowship and awards in his career, including visiting professorships to the University of Bologna, University of Copenhagen, Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Uppsala.[4] 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.[5]
Ash Amin has received various awards and membership to prestigious bodies such as:
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. [1]