Patrick Le Galès is CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre) Research Professor of Sociology, Politics and Urban studies at Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics. He is a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy a member of the Academia Europea, a co-editor of the European Journal of Sociology/Archives européennes de sociologie Prior to this he was the editor of the International Journal of Urban and regional Research , the president of SASE (Society for Advanced Socio economics), a former trustee of the Foundation for Urban and Regional Research, a member of ERC panels, a founding member of the MAXPO centre (Max Planck Society/Sciences Po). He was the founding Dean of Sciences Po Urban School (2015-2022).

His researches mostly deals with: 1) Comparative Public policy, policy instruments and the political sociology of the state, digital cities; 2) Urban sociology/urban governance in large metropolis and  European cities (middle classes, urban conflicts, mobility, economic development, inequalities) ; 3) Economic sociology/political economy – the making of a market society and the sociology of Europe with a special interest for the UK and the financialisation of housing and real estate.

He is currently working on a project comparing modes of urban governance (What is governed and not governed?) in Paris, London, Sao Paolo, Mexico. He has just completed a comparative research project on financialization and housing in Paris, London and Amsterdam (with Mike Raco and Tuna Tasan Kok). With Desmond King he works on the Post Brexit British state. With Philippe Bezes he is developing the concept of the policy state. He leads a research on French in London and British in Paris and the making of transnational urban middle classes.