The Director and some staff of the External Relations Division are located on the fourth floor, Tower Three. See Finding your way around LSE: room numbering and accessibility|.

External Relations Division

The External Relations Division was established on 1 June 2007 with the arrival of Robin Hoggard as director.

The purpose of the division is to help increase the impact and influence of the LSE and its work externally, in support of the School's historical mission to contribute to wider society as well as to promote academic excellence. This is to benefit the whole LSE community.

The division brings together several existing functions - click on each to go to their websites:

Academic Partnerships
Academic Publishing
Conference and Events
Communications - comprising Press and Information, Design Unit and Web Services
The division is responsible for the School's representation in China - see LSE China
The division runs the Linking Up programme (login required) to encourage and enable LSE academic staff to undertake external relations activities when travelling.

External Relations Division monitors LSE's position in University league tables|.

For more details see Snapshot of ERD activities at September 2009| (login required).

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