Saskia Sassen The Hague , Netherlands, 1949
Born in Holland, Saskia Sassen grew up in Buenos Aires , a city where his family moved in 1950. Part of his youth was spent in Italy, and in 1966 moved to France , where for a year he studied at the University of Poitiers, then at the University La Sapienza , Rome , and later at the University of Buenos Aires , where she graduated in philosophy and political science. From 1969 he studied sociology and economics at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana (USA) , where he earned a master's and a doctorate in 1971 and 1974 , respectively. Also in 1974 he earned a master's degree in philosophy in France. He did a postdoc at the Center for International Studies at Harvard University. Saskia Sassen has held various academic positions at universities in the United States and Europe and is currently Professor of Sociology Professor Robert S. Lynden at Columbia University and a member of the Committee on Global Thought at the same university ( www.saskiasassen.com ) . It also integrates the Council on Foreign Relations and the Panel on Cities of the National Academy of Sciences. He has chaired the Committee on Information Technology and International Cooperation of the Council of Social Science Research ( U.S. ) In his famous book The global city : New York , London , Tokyo , published in 1991 ( Spanish Edition : The City overall , Buenos Aires, 1999 ) Saskia Sassen develops the concept of global city, novel category to study the city as a place of intersection between the local and the global. Another key aspect of the work of Sassen resides in studies on issues of power and inequality arising from globalization processes .