Gordon L. Clark is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Professorial Fellow of the Saïd Business School, and Faculty Associate of the Institute of Ageing at the University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford. He is a member of the Panel of Academic Experts of the UK National Association of Pension Funds and a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute. Dr Dariusz Wójcik works as Lecturer at the University College London and a Research Associate at Oxford University. He holds an MSc in Geography from the Jagiellonian University, an MSc in Economics from the Cracow Academy of Economics, and an MSc in Banking and Finance from the Stockholm University. In 1996-1999 he was a consultant for KPMG Poland. He obtained his D.Phil. from Oxford University for a thesis on European corporate governance and capital market integration. He has lectured at the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University on financial globalization, transition economies, corporate governance, and the economic geography of financial services and centres. He has published papers in leading journals in the field of economic geography and his research was reported in the Financial Times.