Roger Lee is Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He was editor of the "Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers" from 1993 to 1998 and is currently an editor of "Progress in Human Geography," His previous publications include "Economic Geography" (third edition, 1982), "Teaching Geography in Higher Education" (Blackwell, 1991), "Geographies of Economies" (1997) and "Alternative Economic Spaces" (2003). He is also an academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences.
David M. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Queen