Peter Batey

Peter Batey is a British regional scientist and planner, Emeritus Professor of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Liverpool. A geographer by training, with a master's degree in civic design and a doctorate in regional science, he worked for local authorities in Lancashire and Greater Manchester before joining the university in 1975, and held the Lever Chair from 1989 until his retirement in 2015. His work deals with urban and regional analysis, demographic-economic modelling and geodemographics. He was World President of the Regional Science Association International in 1997-98 and was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2000. With David Plane he edits the Springer series Great Minds in Regional Science.