Jonathan Beaverstock is Deputy Dean of the University of Bristol Business School and Principal Investigator of the £1.8M ESRC/UKRI funded project, Future Finance for All.

As an inter-disciplinary social scientist, his research focuses on the globalization of financial and professional service firms, the future of transnational professional work and the competitiveness of the City of London. This research draws on the theoretical lens' of economic geography, urban and mobilities studies, and organisation studies. Current research explores:

• global talent mobilities and the competitiveness of the City of London;
• the role of FinTech ecosystems and financial services clustering in the competitiveness of U.K. city-regions;
• transnational professionals and the future of cross-border knowledge-intensive work;
• sustainable business travel in reconfiguring net zero organisations and city-regions.

He has also published on super-rich capitalism, including seminal work on 'exposing the global super-rich' and private wealth management.

Jonathan's research has been funded by UKRI, Research England, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, British Academy, Nuffield Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust. Its impact has informed stakeholders like H.M. Treasury, U.K.'s Migration Advisory Committee, The Corporation of London, Abu Dhabi’s Economic Development Council, The Institute for Public Policy, FinTech West and the West of England Combined Authority. He sits on the Advisory Board of FinTech West and the FinTech National Network, advising on the role of FinTech in the economic development of the Bristol and Bath city-region.

He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Global Networks, has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Geoforum, Mobilities and Transnational Corporations (UNCTAD), and is a member of the Economic and Social Research Council's Global Challenges Research Fund and Standard Grant peer review colleges. Jonathan also sits on the Nominations Committee of the U.K. Academy of Social Sciences. He currently holds a Visiting Professorship in Economic Geography at the University of Gent, Belgium, the Co-Directorship of the Globalization and World Cities Network (Loughborough University, UK) and a recent ESRC Knowledge Exchange Fellowship.

Since joining Bristol in 2014, Jonathan has served as the Associate Dean International and Business Fellow for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, Head of the School of Economics, Finance and Management, Head of the Department of Management and Head of the newly forming School of Management (as well as School Research Director). Previous, he was Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham, and Professor and Head of the Department of Geography at Loughborough University. 

Jonathan was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2012.

He is available for PhD supervision on topics like, fintech, fintech4good, globalising professional service firms, professionalisation and professional work, City of London, global talent mobility and sustainable business travel.