Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Princesa de Asturias Chair and Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is also the director of the Cañada Blanch Centre and a visiting professor at the University of Stavanger Centre for Innovation Research in Norway. He has a long track record of research in regional growth and inequality, fiscal and political decentralization, institutions, regional innovation, migration, and development policies and strategies. He ranked first in the field of urban and regional planning in the 2021 Stanford/Elsevier list of the 2% most cited scientists.

Insight

Growing imbalances across regions call for localized development strategies as the country moves toward economic diversification.