Committee
EGRG activities are organised by a committee of volunteers working in Geography Departments across the UK and beyond, each typically serving for 3 years. Elections to the Committee happen at our AGM, held each year at the RGS-IBG Conference.
Chair – Liam Keenan
Liam Keenan is Assistant Professor in Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham. As an economic geographer, his research interests include financialization, financial centres, global financial networks, and global production networks. Liam is currently researching the role of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in reshaping the geographies of several global industries as part of wider transformations related to increasing financialization. [Webpage]
Secretary – Franziska Paul
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Treasurer – Jessa Loomis
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Prizes Officer – Chen Qu
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Early Careers Officer – Diana Morales
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Events Officer – Luke Green
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Social Media & Web Officer – Aditya Ray
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International Officers – Nihan Akyelken, Patrick Collins, Jack Laurie Harris
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Postgraduate Officer – Yuhong Lei
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Ordinary Members – Sarah Hall and Jennifer Johns
Sarah Hall is a Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham. Her work explores: the contemporary transformation of the financial system and its implications for finance led economic development; elite financial labour markets; international financial centres and new forms of financial globalisation associated with currency internationalisation. [Webpage]
Jennifer Johns is a Reader in International Business in the School of Management, University of Bristol, with interdisciplinary research interests centred on network approaches to economic development, entrepreneurship and innovation. Her current research focuses on transparency in cocoa and garments supply chains and the Modern Slavery act and the transformation of global production networks through the increased adoption of additive manufacturing (3D printing). [Webpage]
Ordinary Members – Sarah Marie Hall and Rhiannon Pugh
Sarah Marie Hall’s research interests focus on: ethics and consumption in everyday life, families and intimate relationships, and developing ethnographic techniques. She is currently Reader in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, researching an ethnography of how families get by in times of recession and austerity. Sarah completed a PhD looking at ethics and consumption in families, schools and companies at the University of Liverpool. [Webpage]
Rhiannon Pugh is Senior Lecturer at Lund University in Sweden. She is an economic geographer with interests in the themes of regional development, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Rhiannon is especially interested in researching what can broadly be termed less favoured regions, such as post-industrial, uncompetitive, and peripheral regions. As a committee member of the EGRG with a special interest in diversity and inclusion, she looks forward to working on these issues with the committee and wider economic geography community. [Webpage]