Jean-Claude Thill is a Knight Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has been appointed High-End Foreign Expert at the School of Applied Economics of Renmin University of China in Beijing, China, where is also affiliated with the Center of Urban and Regional Economics. He is also a graduate affiliate of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an. He holds a doctoral degree in Geography from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He serves on the editorial board of a number of international journals in geography, urban science and regional science. He served as President of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and has been elected a Fellow of the RSAI. His research focuses on the spatial organization of socio-economic systems across scales, and his recent contributions have involved leveraging spatial data analytics (including GeoComputation) to better apprehend urban and regional systems at a finer spatio-temporal granularity.