Allen J. Scott

Allen John Scott (born 1938) is a professor of geography and public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Biography Scott was born in Liverpool, England in 1938 and was raised in Carlisle. Scott graduated from St John's College, 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, University of Toronto, University of Paris, University of Hong Kong, and from 1981 at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a distinguished professor with joint appointments in the Department of Public Policy and the Department of Geography. Scott became Professor Emeritus in 2013.

Awards and honors Professeur associé, elected by the French Comité Consultatif des Universités, 1974 - 1975. 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, 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, awarded by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, 2009. Doctor Honoris Causa, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, 2011 Academic Icon, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2012. Prix de l'Association des Economistes de Langues Néolatines, 2013. Elected to the Academia Europaea, 2013. Sir Peter Hall Prize, awarded by the Regional Studies Association, 2013. Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, University of Toronto, 2021. Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, 2022.