Neil Coe

Professor Neil Coe is a leading academic in Economic Geography at the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney. He joined in 2022 from the National University of Singapore (2012-2022), where he served as Head of Department. Previously, he spent 12 years at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on global production networks, labour regimes, and retail globalization. He is affiliated with the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre and The Net Zero Institute.

Key research interests include the political economy of global value chains, state roles in resource governance, and the geographies of constrained labour agency. His work spans case studies in China, Singapore, and Southeast Asia, examining how transnational corporations and institutional frameworks shape economic development.

Professor Coe has authored influential textbooks like Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction (3rd ed., 2020) and Global Production Networks (2015). His recent articles explore critical mineral strategies, platform capitalism in food retailing, and hybrid governance in Singapore's oil sector. He serves on editorial boards for major journals including Journal of Economic Geography.

His research has been supported by grants such as the Australian Research Council project on high-value horticulture (2023) and a University grant on critical minerals (2022). He advises on strategic coupling in global production networks and has collaborated with international organizations like the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.