Allen John Scott is a professor of geography

Geography

Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...

 and public policy

Public policy

Public policy as government action is generally the principled guide to action taken by the administrative or executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs. In general, the foundation is the pertinent national and...

 at University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

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Biography

Scott was born in Liverpool, England in 1938 and graduated from Oxford University in 1961. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University (1965). He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, University College London, Toronto University, University of Paris, University of Hong Kong, and since 1981 at the University of California, Los Angeles where he is distinguished professor with joint appointments in the Department of Public Policy and the Department of Geography.

Awards and honors

• Croucher Fellow, University of Hong Kong, 1984
• Visiting Exchange Scholar under auspices of Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, National Academy of Sciences, 1986
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1986–87
• Awarded honors by the Association of American Geographers, 1987
• Elected fellow of the British Academy, 1999
• André Siegfried Chair, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, 1999
• Vautrin Lud Prize
  Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud
  The Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud established in 1991, it is the highest award that can be gained in the field of geography. The award is modelled on the Nobel Prize it is considered and colloquially called the Nobel prize for geography...
  
  , 2003
• First Trust Bank Chair of Innovation, Queen's University, Belfast, 2004.
• Chaire d’Excellence Pierre de Fermat, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, 2005
• Hallsworth Visiting Professorship, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, 2006
• Wibaut Chair, University of Amsterdam, 2006
• "On Hollywood: the Place, the Industry" awarded Meridian Book Prize, 2006
• Carol and Bruce Mallen Lifetime Achievement Award for Published Scholarly Contributions to Motion Picture Industry Studies, 2008
• Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship, National University of Singapore, 2009
• Anders Retzius Gold Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography
  Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography
  The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography is a scientific learned society founded in Sweden in 1877...
  
  , 2009
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2011

External links

• Department of Geography at UCLA
• Department of Public Policy at UCLA
• 2010LAB
• http://www.f-m-c-e-m.com/en/node/627?video=983&pos=1&tri=all
• http://www.jenatv.de/wissenschaft/Titel_vergeben:_Der_Brite_Allen_J_Scott_hat_die_Ehrendoktorwuerde_der_Uni_erhalten-5704.html