Jean-Paul Rodrigue

Jean-Paul Rodrigue received a Ph.D. in Transport Geography from the Université de Montréal (1994) and has been at the Department of Economics & Geography at Hofstra University since 1999. In 2008, he became part of the Department of Global Studies and Geography.

Dr. Rodrigue is on the international editorial board of the Journal of Transport Geography, the Journal of Transport and Land Use, acts as the Van Horne Researcher in Transportation and Logistics and is an associate member of the PortEconomics.eu initiative. Dr. Rodrigue is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Advanced Manufacturing (2011-2012). He has authored 3 books, 21 book chapters, more than 35 peer reviewed papers, numerous reports, and delivered more than 120 conferences and seminar presentations, mostly at the international level. His first book about the global economic space, has been published by Les Presses de l'Universté du Québec and won the 2001 PricewaterhouseCoopers award (Prix du livre d'affaire) for the best French business-related book published in North America. His second book, The Geography of Transport Systems, was published by Routledge in July 2006 and the second edition was published in May 2009.