Richard Ronald holds a Professorial Chair in Housing and Social Change in the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK, and is Associate Professor at the Centre for Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has published widely on housing in relation to social, economic and urban transformations in Europe and Pacific Asia including a number of monographs and edited volumes. He has held Japan Foundation as well as Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowships at Kobe University in Japan, and has been a Visiting Professor at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Housing Policy