Patrick Le Galès - Biography#

Patrick Le Galès, (Sciences Po, M.litt Oxford, PhD University of Paris X Nanterre), is a comparative sociologist and political scientist. He is CNRS Research Professor at Sciences Po (Center for European Studies), co-director of the research group « Cities are back in town, » and founding (part-time) Dean of Sciences Po Urban School (term ending in 2020). He is corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He received in 2018, the CNRS Silver Medal for Excellence in research, the 2002 Stein Rokkan Prize for the best comparative research (ECPR/UNESCO) and in 2008 the Mattei Dogan Prize for excellence in research (Association Française de Science Politique). He has been visiting professor/researcher in particular at UCLA, the European University Institute in Florence, Milan Bicocca, King’s College London, Nuffield College Oxford, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society in Cologne, the universities of São Paulo, Northwestern, El Colegio de Mexico, and the Brussels Studies Institute. He is a former editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (1998-2005), and former president of SASE (2012-2013) (Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics). He is co-editor of the European Journal of Sociology. He has published over 20 single authored, co-authored and edited books in 4 languages including the award winning European cities, social conflict and governance (OUP 2002) and in 2018, Gobernando la ciudad de Mexico .

He has led many comparative research projects in Europe and beyond. Substantively, Le Galès’s research agenda is concerned with (1) the governance and political economy of large metropolitan regions (Paris, London, São Paulo, Mexico, Dubai, Istanbul); (2) comparative specificities of European cities (middle classes, governance, urban conflicts, mobility, economic development, inequalities, transport, utilities, housing); (3) comparative public policy, policy instruments and the comparative political sociology of the state; and (4) Economic sociology/political economy and globalization – the making of a market society, neo-liberalism, the digital city. He was deeply involved in CIFAR “Successful Societies” program as an advisory committee member for 6 years and was a reviewer for this program in the past hence a unique experience of what constitutes a successful CIFAR program.

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