The committee of RSAI (Regional Science Association International) in charge of selecting the recipient of the Hirotada Kohno award recommended Prof. André TORRE to be the recipient of the 1924 award.

https://www.regionalscience.org/index.php/awards/hirotada-kohno-award.html

The motivation provided by the committee reads as follows :

Professor André Torre has been active in the regional science community for almost four decades. He has been President (2019- 2023) and Vice-President (2014-2018) of the ERSA as well as a member of the ERSA Council (2009-2011) and the European Organizing Committee (2014-2019) and from 2009-2011, President of the French Speaking Section of ERSA (ASRDLF). He was Chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the 47th ERSA Congress, in 2007 in Paris (Local governance and sustainable development), and the main organizer of the 60th ERSA Congress, in 2021, online (Territorial Futures – Visions and scenarios for a resilient Europe). For a long period he has also served as a member of the RSAI Council. He also lent his leadership skills in various editorial capacities and in steering conferences, workshops, summer schools, and symposia in Europe and beyond. His long and dedicated work for regional science at the highest levels makes him a worthy recipient of the Kohno Award.