Conferences

Global Conference on Economic Geography, Singapore, 5-9 December 2000
(Jointly organized by the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, and the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore)

With almost 200 academic participants from 30 countries, the Singapore conference was significant in spurring on economic-geographical dialogue in a sustained manner worldwide. Some 150 high quality papers were presented and the conference resulted in two special issues in leading geographical journals (see JEG 2001, E&PA 2002, and Olds' editorial in E&PD 2001), as well as numerous other articles, chapters, and reports.
Conference website and full report

Second Global Conference on Economic Geography, Beijing, China, 25-28 June 2007
(Jointly organized with the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

With almost 400 participants from 39 countries, the SGCEG became the largest-ever global conference dedicated to economic geography. The impact of the conference is likely to be significant through the future work of participants and their publications in leading journals. This likely impact is further testified by the conference participation of editors from many leading journals in Geography, e.g. Economic Geography (entire team of five editors), Environment and Planning A (four out of six editors), Progress in Human Geography (managing editor), Journal of Economic Geography (Associate Editor), Regional Studies (two editors), Geoforum (co-editor), and Eurasian Geography and Economies (publisher).
Conference website and full report

Sessions organized at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers

“Relationality and the Space Economy” and “Geographies of Economic Geography”, Chicago, 7-11 March 2006.

“Teaching Economic Geography”, Denver, 5-9 April 2005.

“Geographies of Development in Asia” and “Global Production Networks”, Philadelphia, 14-19 March 2004.

“Emerging Global-City Regions in Asia”, New Orleans, 5-8 March 2003.

“Economic Geographies of Asia”, Los Angeles, 19 - 23 March 2002.

“Geographies of International Business”, New York City, 27 February - 3 March 2001.

“Globalisation and the Asian Economic Crisis”, Honolulu Hawaii, 23-27 March 1999.

“Industrial and Business Networks in Asia”, Boston, 25-29 March 1998.