Speaker: Henry Wai-chung YEUNG, Department of Geography and GPN@NUS Centre, National University of Singapore, China

Time: 15:30-17:00 p.m., November 17, 2023, GMT+8

Venue: College of Urban and Environmental Sciences (Scan the QR code to register)


Abstract:

Professor Henry Yeung has been Distinguished Professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, since2018,and Professor of Economic Geography since2005. As a leading academic expert in global production networks and the global economy, his research interests cover broadly theories and the geography of transnational corporations, East Asian firms, and developmental states. He is the first geographer based in Asia to receive both the 2018 American Association of Geographers Distinguished Scholarship Honors(“in recognition of his extraordinary scholarship and leadership in the discipline") and the UK's Royal Geographical Society Murchison Award 2017 (for “pioneering publications in the field of globalisation").In November 2022, he was conferred the 2022 Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field by the Regional Studies Association in London: “acknowledging and celebrating excellence in the field of regional studies".

Source: College of Urban and Environmental Sciences