Michael Storper, UCLA distinguished professor of regional and international development in urban planning and director of Global Public Affairs at UCLA Luskin, has been named winner of the 2025 European Regional Science Association’s Prize in Regional Science. Storper, also a professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, was chosen by an independent, international panel of scientists for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of regional science. He joins a distinguished group of honorees of the prize first awarded in 2003. The author of more than 100 academic papers and 13 books is a member of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences and, in 2014, he was named by Thomson Reuters as one of the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” of the 21st century for his writings being among the top one percent most cited in the field of social sciences. He is a fellow of the British Academy and in 2016 received the Founder’s Medal from the Royal Geographical Society. Other awards include the 2022 Vautrin Lud International Award for Geography and Distinguished Scholarship Honors for 2017 from the American Association of Geographers. The ERSA Prize will be presented at the closing session of 64th ERSA Congress in Athens, Greece in August 2025.