Patrick Le Galès

CNRS ResearchProfessor of Sociology, Politics and Urban Studies at Sciences Po, Paris

Patrick Le Galès is a CNRS Research Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Urban Studies at Sciences Po - Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics. He was the founding Dean of Sciences Po Urban School (2015–2022). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a member of the Academia Europaea, The French Académie des Technologies. He is a Co-Editor of the European Journal of Sociology and of the book series IJURR studies in social and urban changes with University of California Press and Gouvernances, with Presses de Sciences Po. Previously, he served as editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), and was Co-Founder of the Max Planck Society/Sciences Po Centre (MAXPO).

His research focuses on comparative urban sociology and urban governance, transnational class making, comparative public policy, the political sociology of the state, political economy, neo liberalism and housing financialisation processes. He has extensively studied urban transformations,policies and inequalities in major European and Latin American cities, including Paris, Rennes, Coventry, London, Mexico, Sao Paulo, but also Hong Kong, with a particular interest in the relationships between the state, markets, and cities.

He has received several prestigious academic awards, including the CNRS Silver Medal (2018) and the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research (2002).

His main publications include European Cities: Social Conflicts and Governance (2002), Gouverner par les instruments (with Pierre Lascoumes) (2004), Globalising minds and roots in the city, urban upper middle classes in Europe (with Alberta Andreotti and Francesco Javier Moreno Fuentes) (2015), Reconfigurating European States in crisis (with Desmond Kng) (2017), La métropole parisienne, une anarchie organisée (with Francesca Artioli) (2023), The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Studies (with Jennifer Robinson) (2023).