University of Toronto homepage
All experts
All experts

Richard DiFrancesco

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Geography and Planning

  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Geography and Planning
  • 416-978-4977
  • University of Toronto, 100 St. George St., Room 5050A, Toronto, Canada

BIO

Richard DiFrancesco is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto. He is an economic geographer interested in regional economic development implications of the changing spatial distribution of production caused by the proliferation of GPNs in all sectors of the global economy.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Chair
    University of Toronto, Department of Geography and Planning, Toronto, Canada2018 - present
  • Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 1995 - present

DEGREES

  • Ph.D.
    McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
  • M.A.
    McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
  • B.A.
    McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Lawson Climate Institute (LCI)