Santa Clara University

Manuel Castells
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Science, Technology, and Society
GSBI™ Research Collaboration

Manuel Castells is the Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.  He is also the Marvin and Joanne Grossman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at M.I.T and Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona.  Prior to his appointment at USC, he was, from 1979 to 2003, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the European Academy, the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and the British Academy.  He has received 15 honorary doctorates from universities around the world.

His trilogy, "The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture" (Blackwell 1996-2003), has been translated into 22 languages. Among other appointments, he was a member of the United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Committee on Information Technology and of the President of South Africa's International Advisory Committee on Technology and Development. He is currently a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, the research funding institution of the European Union.

Dr. Castells contributes to the GSBI™ Research Collaboration.