I attended the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) conference 2018 for the first time last week. It certainly is no hardship to visit Japan and the beautiful city of Kyoto and I've been wanting to engage with the SASE crowd for some time now. There is something quite refreshing about going to a... Continue Reading →

It was a busy week last week with the Conference on Global Production 2017 (CGP2017), organised by GPN@NUS. While I was less involved in the actual conference organisation, I had the 4th FinGeo Global Seminar to host. This was embedded within the overall conference programme, under the theme of 'Global Financial Networks'. We had a... Continue Reading →

I recently had the good fortune to be invited to a small workshop at Cambridge hosted by the 'Centre for Rising Powers' on the theme of 'Emerging Geographies of Transnational Monetary Power' (18-19 September). Organisers, Jeremy Green (University of Cambridge) and Julian Gruin (University of Warwick/University of Amsterdam), pulled together a group of international political... Continue Reading →

It was good to be back at the Royal Geographical Society after a break of two years. I usually spent most conferences involved with one particular stream of sessions that I (co)organise or otherwise affiliated with. This time, I was split between sessions organised by the Global Production Networks Centre (GPN@NUS) and Global Network on... Continue Reading →

We have a great list of financial geography related sessions at the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Conference 2017 next week (29 August – 1 September), sponsored by the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo). See you there!   Platform Finance (1): Geographies of FinTech — Wednesday 30 August 2017, Session 1 (09:00 -... Continue Reading →

June is usually when I take the family for the the UK for our annual visit. It also proved to be rather busy with two workshops on opposite sides of the world. The first workshop on Global Production Networks in Asia, co-organised by City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University and GPN@NUS. It was... Continue Reading →

This is a long overdue post from back in April. Yikes. But here are some highlights! A lot happened in Boston during that 1 week. First up was the 2nd FinGeo Global Seminar at MIT, organised by Janelle Knox-Hayes. A great programme of speakers and discussants focused on 'Finance, Geography and Sustainability: Lessons for Urban... Continue Reading →

Please join us for a Women in Economic Geography Social Hour on Wednesday, April 5th at the AAG in Boston, MA. Our goal for this inaugural event is to gather in an informal opportunity to support and bring visibility to women's contributions to economic geography. Our hope is that women-identified economic geographers with diverse interests across the... Continue Reading →

This is a long overdue post but I do wish to record my thanks to Stefan Ouma, Peter Lindner and Marc Boeckler for their kind invitation to visit the Department of Human Geography at Goethe University Frankfurt as part of their lecture series. The Winter 2016/2017 Lecture Series was titled 'Frontier Regions of Global Finance', featuring... Continue Reading →