Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include the political economy of neoliberalism, the politics of policy formation and mobility, economic governance, labor studies, and urban restructuring. Recent publications include Fast policy (with Nik Theodore, Minnesota, 2014), Constructions of neoliberal reason (Oxford, 2010), and the co-edited collections, Contesting neoliberalism (Guilford, 2007), Politics and practice in economic geography (Sage, 2007), and The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography (Wiley, 2012). An elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an Academician in the Social Sciences, and a former Guggenheim Fellow, Jamie Peck is the recipient of the Royal Geographical Society’s Back Award, for contributions to economic geography.