	Professor Oriana Bandiera, Department of Economics. Co-Director of the Research Programme for the study of Economic Organisation and Public Policy. Research areas: development Economics; international trade; public sector.
	Professor Nicholas Barr, European Institute. Professor of Public Economics. Research areas: health finance, higher education finance, OECD countries, pensions, post-communist countries, social insurance and welfare states.
	Professor Michael Barzelay, Department of Management. Research areas: public management. Organisational efforts and methodologies to prepare for the future. Knowledge-creation approaches to risk awareness and rationality. Managing governmental operations in a variety of settings, including defence environment, and economic development. Management of organisational change in governmental contexts
	Professor Tim Besley, Department of Economics. Former MPA Director, Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science and Director of STICERD. Research areas: development Economics; public Economics; political economy.
	Professor Robin Burgess, Department of Economics. Co-Director of the Research Programme for the study of Economic Organisation and Public Policy. Research areas: development Economics; public Economics; political economy and labour Economics with focus on identifying policy and institutional reforms which are capable of delivering higher growth and lower poverty in developing countries.
	Professor Damian Chalmers, European Institute. Research areas: European union; European public law; single European market; legal theory and the EU; comparative regional integration.
	Professor Stuart Corbridge, Department of International Development. Research areas: politics and development with a focus both on cross-country comparisons and the political economy of India; participation, accountability and governance in eastern India.
	Dr Joan Costa-I-Font, Department of Social Policy & European Institute. Senior Lecturer in Political Economy. Research areas: the economics based design of institutions, social policies and problems; social protection, health and aging, understanding the influence of social incentives (culture, identity, status, self-image, altruism) on individual and collective behavior.
	Professor Patrick Dunleavy, AcSS, Department of Government. Former MPA Director, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Chair of the LSE Public Policy Group. Research areas: public sector IT developments; rational choice theories of bureaucracy; large-scale electoral system design; electoral analysis and party politics; public choice theory and modern political science; modern political theory relating to liberal democratic governance.
	Professor Timothy Dyson, Department of International Development. Research areas: agricultural production; aids epidemic; global population trends; population trends; world food; developing world; India; HIV epidemic; famines; fertility trends; family planning programmes
	Dr Andrew Eggers, Department of Government. Research Areas: Money and politics in the U.S. and U.K.; corruption and political reform; French local politics; methods of causal inference.
	Dr Jean-Paul Faguet, Department of International Development. Research areas: decentralisation; development Economics; fiscal architecture; local government effectiveness; local institutions; political economy; preference formation; public policy; social funds; Latin America: econ development; political systems; policy reform.
	Professor Kevin Featherstone, European Institute. Research areas: British membership of EU; contemporary Greek public policy; processes of Europeanisation; economic and monetary union; contemporary Greek politics; pension and labour market reform in southern Europe; European Union politics
	Dr Greg Fischer, Department of Economics. Research Associate with the programme for the Study of Economic Organisation and Public Policy. Research areas: development Economics; corporate finance; behavioural Economics; experimental Economics.
	Dr Lloyd Gruber, Department of International Development. Lecturer in Political Economy of Development. Research areas: globalization, inequality, and redistribution; power and institutions; international and comparative political economy; trade's impact on spatial disparities in economic and political development; regional integration and foreign economic policy; and public policy analysis.
	Dr Sara Hagemann, European Institute. Lecturer in EU Politics. Research areas: EU politics and governance, EU treaty reforms and enlargements, transparency and accountability in representative democracies.
	Professor Simon Hix, Department of Government. Research Areas: European Union Politics and Policy, the EU legislative process and the European Parliament, parties and elections, rational choice theory.
	Dr Rafael Hortala-Vallve, Department of Government. Research areas: formal political theory; political economy; social choice; public Economics; collective decision-making; coalition formation; voting and elections; experimental social sciences.
	Professor Stephen Jenkins, Department of Social Policy. Professor of Economic and Social Policy. Research areas: analysis of the distribution of income and its redistribution through taxation, social security and the labour market; trends in inequality and poverty measurement; income mobility and poverty dynamics; labour supply and social security benefit receipt; quantitative research methods for analysis of income distribution in particular, and applied microeconometrics more generally, especially survival analysis.
	Professor Paul Kelly, Department of Government. Professor of Political Theory. Research areas: contemporary theories of justice, the political theory of multiculturalism, nationalism and citizenship, the political and legal thought of Jeremy Bentham, British political ideas from the 17th century and the political and legal philosophy of Ronald Dworkin.
	Dr Lisa Kurunmaki, Department of Accounting. Research areas: accounting in the new public sector, with special reference to healthcare.
	Professor Gilat Levy, Department of Economics and Research Associate within the Theory Group of LSE's Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD).
	Professor Alan Manning, Department of Economics. Centre for Economic Performance, LSE. Research areas: labour Economics; low pay; minimum wages; unemployment; wages councils.
	Professor Peter Miller, Department of Accounting. Professor of Management Accounting. Research areas: investment appraisal in new manufacturing environments; accounting in the new European public sector; accounting as a social and institutional practice.
	Dr Guy Michaels, Department of Economics. Research Associate in the Labour Markets Programme at the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance. Research areas: labour Economics; economic development; economic geography.
	Professor Tim Newburn. Research areas: the changing nature of policing and security arrangements in late modern societies; the nature of, and explanations for, youth offending and social exclusion; trends in alcohol and drug use; and, the nature of comparative criminal justice and penal policy making
	Dr Gerard Padró i Miquel, Department of Economics. Research Associate with the programme for the Study of Economic Organisation and Public Policy. Research areas: development Economics, political economy and Economics of conflict.
	Sir Richard Mottram, GCB, Department of Government. Visiting Professor and guest Lecturer on Leadership in the Public Sector. Sir Richard's career includes spent fifteen years in the UK civil service as a Permanent Secretary in five different departments.
	Dr Marco Simoni, European Instutute. Lecturer in European Political Economy. Research areas: institutions such as trade unions; social democratic parties; policy concertation, including their processes and their outcomes.
	Dr Daniel Sturm, Department of Economics. Lecturer in Economics, Research Associate of the Globalisation Programme of the LSE Centre for Economic Performance, and Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Research areas: international trade; economic geography; political economy and environmental Economics.
	Dr Joachim Wehner, Department of Government. Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and a member of the LSE's Political Science and Political Economy (PSPE) research group. Research areas: budgeting and public finance; legislatures;federalism; decentralisation; South African government and politics; Africa: governance and development; socio-economic rights; comparative government.

LSE Fellows and Guest Teachers

	Dr Nikitas Konstantinidis, Department of Government. Fellow in Political Science and Public Policy and a member of the LSE's Political Science and Political Economy (PSPE) research group. Research areas: comparative and international political economy, applied formal theory, regional integration, international organizations, and European Union politics.
	Dr Hande Mutlu-Eren, Department of Government. LSE Fellow in Political Science and Public Policy. Research areas: political parties; party competition; coalition formation; intra-party politics.
	Claudia Steinwender, Department of Economics, Centre for Economic Performance (CEP). Research areas: international trade, labour economics.
	Oliver Vanden-Eynde, Department of Economics, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD). Research areas: development Economics and political economy; the role of the military in economic development.

Support Staff

	Michelle Batten is the MPA Programme Manager and joined the MPA team in May 2008 after eight years working with undergraduate medical and dental students at King's College London. Prior to that she worked for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music for two years. Michelle studied European and American History at the University of Warwick, and spent the second year of her degree on an exchange programme at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
	Laura Harrison is the Executive MPA Programme and Extra Curricular Development Manager. She is the primary point of contact for the Executive MPA Programme and IPA student events. Laura has worked at the LSE for nine years, most recently in the Planning and Corporate Policy Division
	Penelope Randall-Hodge is the MPA Administrator and Office Manager on the programme. She is the primary point of contact for all student queries concerning the MPA website, assessments and the Virtual Learning Environment Moodle and is available Monday to Friday to answer any student questions. Prior to working at LSE, Penelope worked in administrative roles in the private sector and obtained a BA Hons Degree in English Literature from Royal Holloway, University of London.
	Jo Underwood is the MPA Programme and Development Manager and has been involved with the programme since its inaugural year in 2003. He is a graduate of the LSE MSc Philosophy, Policy and Social Value.
	Lynette York is the MPA Student Advisor and Life Coach, and Admissions Manager. Lynette is the primary point of contact for students and provides a drop-in service and also longer life coaching sessions. She works part-time normally on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Lynette has a Diploma in Personal Performance Life Coaching and prior to LSE spent many years working in programme administration at King's College London.