Awards

Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution

The highest accolade of the Regional Studies Association, for outstanding lifetime contributions to regional studies.

ERSA Prize in Regional Science

The European Regional Science Association’s prize for outstanding regional scientists, arguably the highest in the field.

European Research Council Advanced Grant

Principal Investigator of the project Spatial Spikes.

Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship

Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award

The only social scientist to have received it.

Philip Leverhulme Prize

For work on economic geography.

Gill Memorial Award, Royal Geographical Society

For research on regional disparities and regional policy.

Doctor Honoris Causa in Geosciences, Utrecht University

The Netherlands.

Doctor Honoris Causa in Economics, Jönköping University

Sweden.

Fellow of the Regional Studies Association (FeRSA)

Fellow of the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission

Lifetime Fellowship, Regional Studies Association

Fellow of the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission

Fellow of the Regional Science Association International

Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences

United Kingdom.

Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research

Professorial Research Fellow, IMDEA Social Sciences

Madrid.

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

Regional Studies Best Paper Award

For “The geography of EU discontent”, with Lewis Dijkstra and Hugo Poelman. Voted by the editors of Regional Studies.

Martin Beckmann Award

Best paper in Papers in Regional Science in 2018, for “Institutions vs. ‘first-nature’ geography”, with Tobias Ketterer.

Regional Studies Best Paper Award

For “Do institutions matter for regional development?”.

Regional Studies Association Best Book Award

For the Handbook of Local and Regional Development, with Andy Pike and John Tomaney. Voted by the RSA membership.

Ashby Prize

Most innovative paper in Environment and Planning A in 2004, for “Is there a global link between regional disparities and devolution?”, with Nicholas Gill.

Best Global Strategy Paper Prize, Strategic Management Society

For “Exposure to OFDI and regional labour markets”, with Luisa Gagliardi and Simona Iammarino.

Best Referee Award, Regional Studies

Best Referee Award, Territory, Politics, Governance

Chair of the European Commission’s High-Level Group on the Future of Cohesion Policy

Member of the five-strong committee of the Vautrin Lud Prize

Known as the ‘Nobel Prize for Geography’.

Member of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Innovation (RISE)

Advising the Research and Innovation Commissioner.

Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Economics of Innovation

Environment and Planning A Referee of the Year

Member of the Economic High Level Group Innovation for Growth (i4g)

Advising the Research and Innovation Commissioner.

Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Employment

Distinction for the outstanding quality of a PhD thesis

European University Institute, Florence.

Best PhD thesis of 1993, School of Geography and History

Complutense University of Madrid.

Distinction for outstanding MSc performance

Institut d’Etudes Européennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

First Spanish National Award for undergraduate performance

Geography, History and History of Art, across the whole of Spain.

First Prize of the Complutense University for undergraduate performance in the Humanities