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About the Speakers
Michael Storper (PhD, Economic Geography, University of California, Berkeley) is an economic geographer who has spent his career at UCLA, London School of Economics, and Sciences Po/Paris. At UCLA he Distinguished Professor of Regional and International Development, and he also serves as the Director of Global Public Affairs at the Luskin School of Public Affairs. He was formerly Academic Director of the Master of Public Affairs at Sciences Po in Paris. He holds an appointment as Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics in every fall term. Storper is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed academic articles and 12 books, including the widely-cited The Regional World: Territory, Technology and Economic Development(Guilford), Worlds of Production (Harvard), and Keys to the City (Princeton University Press, 2013). A number of his articles are among the most highly-cited in the journals in which they have been published and his articles have been published in journals in geography, sociology, urban studies, economics, and development studies. He received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Utrecht In 2008, and a Prime d’Excellence Scientifique in 2010. He sits on the editorial board of numerous scientific journals, including the Journal of Regional Science, Industrial and Corporate Change, The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Economic Geography. A recent article published in Papers in Regional Science called him “one of the two most influential economic geographers in the world today,” and for a ten-year period he was the most cited faculty member of all departments of planning and urbanism in the United States. Thompson-Reuters named him “one of the world’s most influential scientific minds” in 2013. He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 2016, and is a member of the British Academy, and the Academy of Social Sciences. Storper has recently published papers on European urban and regional policy, on the geography of innovation in the USA and Europe compared, as well as on comparisons of China and India’s innovation geography, as well as on debates in urban theory. His most recent book (2015) is entitled The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from Los Angeles and San Francisco (Stanford University Press) Storper is a frequent contributor to regional and urban policymaking for the European Union, the French government, and other international agencies. He holds dual French-American citizenship and is a fluent speaker of english, french and portuguese.
Mary Walshok, Ph.D., Associate Vice Chancellor for Public Programs and Dean of Extension at the University of California San Diego, the author of more than 100 articles and reports on the innovation economy and aligning workforce development with regional economic growth. She has authored and co-authored Blue Collar Women (1981), Knowledge Without Boundaries (1995), Closing America’s Job Gap (2011), Creating Competitiveness: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policies for Growth (2013) and Invention and Reinvention: The Evolution of San Diego’s Innovation Economy (2013), Public Universities and Regional Growth: Insights from the University of California (2014) and the Oxford Handbook of Local Competitiveness (2015). Her particular focus is how globalization and rapid changes in technology are affecting the social dynamics and economic challenges of regions across America.
A co-founder in 1984 of the internationally recognized CONNECT program, Walshok has been an integral player in the evolution of San Diego’s innovation economy for more than 30 years.
Moderator
Martin Kenney is a Distinguished Professor of Community and Regional Development at the University of California, Davis; a Senior Project Director at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy; and Senior Fellow at the Research Institute for the Finnish Economy.
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