Ya Ping Wang is currently Chair Professor in Human Geography at School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University. He is Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) and Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences, UK (FAcSS). He was formerly Chair Professor in Global City Futures at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University Glasgow. He was the Director and Principal Investigator of the Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC), a multi-national collaborative project funded by the UKRI Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) from 2017 to 2023. Professor Wang’s research focusses on urbanisation, housing, rural to urban migration, urban poverty and neighbourhood changes in China and other developing countries. He is author/co-author of Housing Policy and Practice in China; Urban Poverty, Housing and Social Change in China, and Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World.  He is the lead editor for a new Springer book - New Drivers of Division: Urbanisation and Spatial Inequality in Africa and Asia.