Tassilo Herrschel is Reader (Associate Professor) in Urban and Regional Development in the Department of Politics and IR at the University of Westminster, UK. He is a board member of the Regional Studies Association, was Chair of the Post-Socialist Geographies Research Group of the RGS (with IBG), and served as a Member of the Commissioning Panel for the ESRC. He established, and continues to co-direct, the Centre for Urban and Regional Governance (CURG), and is a senior member of the Governance and Sustainability Programme at the University. Among his recent publications are Global Geographies of Post-socialist Transition (2007) and Cities between Globalisation and State (forthcoming).