Prof Dariusz Wójcik clinches prestigious Royal Geographical Society Murchison award for geographical excellence
June 11, 2025

Professor Dariusz Wójcik from the Department of Geography at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has been conferred the prestigious Murchison Award by the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) for geographical excellence.
The RGS-IBG noted that the award is in recognition of his body of publications, which has “forged a whole new branch of geographical science” and has established geography “as a key discipline for the study of money and finance”. They cited his recently published book The Atlas of Finance – the first-ever book-sized collection of maps and visuals dedicated to financial geography – as “a definitive contribution to our understanding of the geographical structure of the global financial system.” Past recipients of the award include the notable Dr Roger Tomlinson, a distinguished geographer and creator of the world’s first Geographic Information System.
Founded in 1830 and based in London, the RGS-IBG is a renowned institution dedicated to advancing geographical science through supporting and promoting geography and its practitioners through research, education and public engagement. With 16,000 members currently, the organisation is the largest and most active scholarly geographical society.

Prof Wójcik was presented the award by the Society’s President, Professor Dame Jane Francis, at a ceremony in London on 2 June. On receiving the award, he shared, “I feel honoured and humbled. I hope that this occasion serves as encouragement to others who study finance and space, within and beyond financial geography.”
A financial and economic geographer, Prof Wójcik’s research combines insights from geography, economics, political economy, sociology and anthropology. He has published 8 books and over 120 articles and book chapters in leading journals and edited volumes. Before coming to NUS, he served as a Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment until 2023. He is also the founder and inaugural chair of the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo), a research network that fosters collaboration among scholars interested in the spatial aspects of finance, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Finance & Space journal.
Click here to learn more about Prof Wójcik in a RGS-IBG interview.