Patrick Le Galès is CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre) Research Professor of Sociology, Politics and urban studies at Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics. He was the founding Dean of Sciences Po Urban School (2015-2022) where he still teaches, and is involved in the “ Cities are back in town ” and “restructuring the state” research groups. He is a corresponding Fellow of the british Academy , a member of the Academia Europea, a co-editor of the European Journal of Sociology/Archives européennes de sociologie and member of the CNRS Scientific Council . Prior to this he was the editor of the International Journal of Urban and regional Research , the president of SASE ( Society for Advanced Socio economics . Among his publications : European cities, Social conflict and  governance, Oxford University Press 2002, The New Labour experiment (Standford University Press 2010). Globalising minds, roots in the cities, upper middle classes in EUrope? Wiley/ Blackwell in 2015;, Gobernando la ciudad de méxico. Lo que se gobierna y lo que no se gobierna en una gran metrópoli , 2017 Mexico , Colejio de Mexico ; Reconfigurating european states in Crisis, Oxford 2017,  Gouverner la métropole parisienne. État, conflits, institutions, réseaux . Presses de Sciences Po. 2020. The Handbook of comparative global urban studies (with J.Robinson) will appear with Routlege in 2023.