Mike Douglass is an American urban planner scholar and social scientist known for his exploration of rural-urban linkages, migration and international economic competition, focusing on globalization and the rise of civil society in Asia. He is currently on 5-year joint appointment as professor with the Asia Research Institute and Lee Kuan Yew School for Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS).
Prior to NUS, Douglass was the director of The Globalization Research Center as well as a professor and department chair of urban and regional planning, University of Hawaii.[1] He received a Ph.D. in urban planning at UCLA. He previously taught at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague and the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK. He was also a visiting professor at Stanford University, UCLA, and Thammasat University.