Gernot Grabher is Head of the Research Unit Urban and Regional Economics at the HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU). Previously he held positions, amongst others, at the University of Bonn, King’s College London and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He was also visiting professor at Columbia University, Cornell University, the Santa Fe Institute, the University of Toronto, the Copenhagen Business School and Zhejiang University. Gernot is co-editor of the Routledge Regions and Cities book series and was co-editor of Economic Geography. He was born at the very edge of Austria in Vorarlberg.