Ash Amin

Who is Ash Amin?

Ash Amin FBA AcSS is a British-Pakistani professor of geography at the University of Cambridge and formerly at Durham University, UK. He was head of the geography department at Durham and Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study.

He graduated from the University of Reading in 1979 with a degree in Italian Studies and then gained a PhD in geography from Reading in 1986. He is a prominent and world renowned economic geographer, with research in the areas of spaces of social, political and economic change. He has authored 17 books and 100 journal articles.