People

Jo Beall

Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Policy Fellow
j.beall@lse.ac.uk
@JoBeall1

Katie Beck

Policy Fellow
k.a.beck@lse.ac.uk

Ricky Burdett

Director
Professor of Urban Studies, LSE
r.burdett@lse.ac.uk
@BURDETTR

Josefa Errázuriz Clark

Researcher/Project Coordinator (Santiago Urban Task Force)
J.Errazuriz@lse.ac.uk

Nuno F da Cruz

Senior Associate
n.m.ferreira-da-cruz@lse.ac.uk
@NFdaCruz

Catalina Duarte

Policy Officer
C.Duarte-Sanchez@lse.ac.uk

Louise Ellaway

Policy Officer
L.R.Ellaway@lse.ac.uk

Alexandra Gomes

Research Fellow
a.peca-amaral-gomes@lse.ac.uk
@xpgomes3

Imogen Hamilton-Jones

Programme Manager (European Cities Programme)
I.Hamilton-Jones@lse.ac.uk 
@ImogenHJ

Catarina Heeckt

Senior Policy Fellow
c.l.heeckt@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7107 5524
@CHeeckt 

Charlie Hicks

Research Officer
C.B.Hicks1@lse.ac.uk

Marie Kaune

Researcher
M.S.Kaune@lse.ac.uk 

Ben Plowden

Senior Associate
B.Plowden@lse.ac.uk

Philipp Rode

Executive Director
Associate Professor (Education), LSE
Co-Director, Executive MSc in Cities, LSE
p.rode@lse.ac.uk
@PhilippRode

Ben Rogers

Bloomberg Distinguished Fellow in Government Innovation
B.Rogers1@lse.ac.uk
@ben_rog

Savvas Verdis

Senior Lecturer in Practice
Co-Director of the Executive MSc in Cities
s.verdis@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 6313
@SavvasVerdis 

Nermin Abdulla

Executive MSc Programme Manager
N.Abdulla@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 6429

Sarah Davis

Finance and Resourcing Coordinator
s.j.davis@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7107 5155

Situ Diwan

Logistics Coordinator (Urban95 Academy) 
S.Diwan1@lse.ac.uk

Jennifer Ho

Executive MSc Programme Administrator
and Centre Administrator
j.ho8@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7107 5232

Alba Lamberti

Head of Programme (ECLP)
A.Lamberti@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 6207

Jocelyn Reid

Project Manager for Mayoral Leadership (ECLP)
J.F.Reid@lse.ac.uk

Kate Ascher 

Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE Cities
Kate Ascher currently serves as the Milstein Professor of Urban Development at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she teaches real estate, infrastructure and urban planning courses. She continues to practice as a sub-consultant to Buro Happold, a global engineering firm based in the UK, where she served as partner through 2019 and founded the “Cities” team – which today works on a variety of resilience, public space and economic development projects on behalf of government and private clients across the US and internationally.

Prior to joining Buro Happold, she served as Director of Development at Vornado Realty Trust, Executive Vice-President at the NYC Economic Development Corporation (under Mike Bloomberg), and Assistant Director of the Port at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In these capacities, she oversaw and delivered a variety of complex projects ranging from waterfront and park activation to transportation, real estate development and urban regeneration.  

Kate holds a BA from Brown University, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and is the author of several books on urban infrastructure (The Works, The Heights and The Way to Go), as well as co-author of New York Rising, an illustrated anthology of New York City’s physical evolution. She serves on the Boards of the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center in NYC and the Holcim Foundation, based in Zurich

Gianluca Cerruti 

Short-term Visiting Senior Associate, LSE Cities
Gianluca is Assistant Professor in Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Genova, where he teaches Economic Policy and Economic Policy Evaluation. He leads the data analysis team for the ERC-funded "HABITAT" project. He has held visiting positions at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Paris School of Economics (PSE), and has completed advanced training courses at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) and the Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (FBK IRVAPP), among others. His research primarily focuses on regional economics, political economy, and law and economics. His work has appeared in international journals, including the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO), Journal of Regional Science, Review of Economics of the Household, Economics of Governance, and European Journal of Law and Economics.

Alessio Sardo

Short-term Visiting Senior Associate, LSE Cities
Alessio Sardo is a Full Professor at the University of Genova (Italy), Law Department, and a recipient of the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for his project, HABITAT - How European Big Cities and Legal Systems Trigger Urban Inequality.

Previously, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), Department of Public Law, Constitutional Theory, and Philosophy of Law. From 2014 to 2019, he served as a Researcher and Lecturer at Bocconi University (Milan). His research lies at the intersection of legal theory, comparative law, and the economic analysis of law.

Professor Sardo's scholarly work has been published in leading international journals, including The Modern Law Review, The American Journal of Jurisprudence, The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, The German Law Review, Rechtstheorie, The European Journal of Migration and Law, Jurisprudence, The Kanazawa Law Journal, The European Convention on Human Rights Law Review, and European Journal of Law and Economics.

Suzanne Hall

Professor in Sociology and Deputy Head of Department, Department of Sociology, LSE

s.m.hall@lse.ac.uk

Kate Laffen

Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science

k.m.laffan@lse.ac.uk 

David Madden

Assistant Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology, LSE

d.j.madden@lse.ac.uk

Kathleen Scanlon

Distinguished Policy Fellow and Deputy Director, LSE London, LSE

k.j.scanlon@lse.ac.uk

Fran Tonkiss

Head of Department, Department of Sociology, LSE

f.tonkiss@lse.ac.uk

Christine Whitehead

Emeritus Professor of Housing Economics, Department of Economics, LSE

c.m.e.whitehead@lse.ac.uk 

Austin Zeiderman

Associate Professor of Geography, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

a.zeiderman@lse.ac.uk