Allen J. Scott

Allen John Scott (born 1938) is a professor of geography and public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Scott was born in Liverpool, England in 1938 and was raised in Carlisle.

Scott graduated from St John's College, Oxford University, in 1961.

He holds a Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University (1965).

He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, University College London, University of Toronto, University of Paris, University of Hong Kong, and from 1981 at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a distinguished professor with joint appointments in the Department of Public Policy and the Department of Geography.