About the author Luis Suarez-Villa is Professor of Social Ecology and
of Planning, Policy and Design at the University of California, Irvine. He specializes in technology and
innovation, and their relationship with social change, economic development
and regional analysis. Prof. Suarez-Villa has extensive international
experience, and has pursued his research abroad. He has twice been awarded Fulbright fellowships, and has researched
his interests in various nations in Europe, North America, Latin America and
East Asia. He has also been
awarded honors and fellowships by numerous organizations, such as the
National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Organization of
American States, Cornell University, and the University of California. The author’s educational background was very
diverse. He earned his doctorate
at Cornell University, where he pursued studies in development, international
studies, policy and planning.
His first university diploma was in architecture and architectural
engineering, but his academic interests subsequently evolved through the
fields of planning, economics, regional science, public policy, sociology,
and technology studies. Prof. Suarez-Villa has been a faculty member of the
University of California since 1982.
He is a co-founder of the Department of Planning, Policy and Design at
the University of California, Irvine, and of its graduate programs. Prof. Suarez-Villa has also been
affiliated at various times with the Institute of Civil Infrastructure
Systems at New York University, the United Nations, UCLA, the Autonomous
University of Madrid, Spain’s National Council for Scientific Research, the
Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil, and the Institute of Technological
Research at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. For a selective listing of the author’s
publications, please see the Publications section
of this website. To contact the author directly, please send your
message to: LSUAREZ[at]uci[dot]edu
Prof. Suarez-Villa’s page at the University of
California, Irvine, may be accessed through http://www.seweb.uci.edu/faculty/suarez-villa/ Copyright
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