Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics, where he was previously Head of the Department of Geography and Environment. He is the current holder of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant and the Vice-President of the European Regional Science Association. He is President-Elect of Regional Science Association International, where he will serve as Vice-President of the Association in 2014 and as President in 2015-2016. He is the joint managing editor of Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, an editor of Economic Geography, and sits on the editorial board of 20 scholarly journals, including many of the leading international journals in economic geography, human geography and regional science.