Ron is Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography. Although retired from teaching, Ron is still highly research active. His main research interests include regional economic development, productivity and competitiveness; the geographies of money and finance; evolutionary economic geography; the economic resilience of cities and regions; and spatial economic policy. He has published some 25 books and more than 275 articles on these and related themes. His most recent, co-authored book is Levelling Up Left Behind Places (2021, Routledge). He was President of the Regional Studies Association between 2015-2020. In 2016 he was awarded the Royal Geographical Society’s Victoria Gold Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Economic Geography.