Ash Amin, CBE, FBA, FAcSS (born 31 October 1955) is a British[1] academic known for his writing on urban and regional development, contemporary cultural change, progressive politics, and the collaborative economy.

[3] and lived in the South Asian community of Kenya until the age of 16, when he emigrated with his family to settle in Britain.

He is a geographer, interested in the geographies of contemporary social, political and economic change and their effects on situated life, autonomy and identity.

In 2005 he left Newcastle for Durham University, where he was head of the geography department and the founding Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study.

He has received various awards and membership to prestigious bodies such as: He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to social science.,[6] and on 30 January 2015 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Uppsala University.