Meet our experts:

Professor Nicholas Barr
Professor of Public Economics

Expertise: economic theory of the welfare state; finance of higher education; health finance; pensions; public economics; social insurance

Dr Will Bartlett
Visiting Senior Fellow, LSEE Research Unit on South East Europe (European Institute)

Expertise: economic development of the Western Balkans; labour market reforms; education system reforms; health system reforms; social inclusion

Dr Marina Cino Pagliarello
Research Associate, LSE Consulting

Expertise: European Political Economy; European politics; public policy; education policy; civic education; social policy; comparative education; teachers and trainers continuous professional training; apprenticeship

Dr Anne Corbett
Senior Associate, LSE Consulting

Expertise: Bologna Process participant countries; Brexit; EU higher education policy; national higher education policies in EU 28 and Bologna 49; the Bologna Process; the European Union Member States

Dr Niccolo Durazzi
Research Associate, LSE Consulting

Expertise: higher education; skill formation and labour market policy; comparative political economy; comparative social policy

Dr Claire Gordon
Head of LSE Teaching and Learning Centre

Expertise: conflict management; East European politics; minority policy; role of conditionality

Dr Ruth Kattumuri
Co-Director, India Observatory; Associate, Grantham Research Institute; Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences

Expertise: climate change; education and skills; sustainable growth and inclusion, sustainable cities; food security; health policy; population and development

Professor Vassilis Monastiriotis
Professor of Political Economy at the European Institute;
Eleftherios Venizelos Chair in Contemporary Greek Studies;
Deputy Director of LSE Research on South East Europe

Expertise: applied spatial econometrics and GIS; Greece and South East Europe; Greek macro-economic policy and performance; labour market flexibility; regional labour markets; regional policy and performance; spatial economics; unemployment; wage and income disparities

Professor Anne West
Professor of Education Policy, Department of Social Policy

Expertise: early years education and care policies; school-based education policy and reforms; education and early years policy in comparative perspective; families and children

Professor Simon Dietz
Professor of Environmental Policy

Expertise: climate change; environmental economics; sustainable development

Professor Simona Iammarino
Professor of Economic Geography

Expertise: geography of innovation and technological change; multinational corporations; location and innovation strategies; local economic development; regional development policy; regional systems of innovation

Dr Stefania Lovo
Associate Professor in Economics, University of Reading

Expertise: environmental economics; development economics; decentralisation; environmental regulation; international trade; firm productivity

Dr Luca Taschini
Associate Professorial Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Expertise: environmental economics; energy economics; industrial organisation; market‑based policy instruments; regulatory impact analysis; policy instrument choice under uncertainty; carbon markets; climate finance; sustainable finance

Dr Grace Yuehan Wang
Visiting Fellow, Department of Media and Communications

Expertise: Entrepreneurship and technological innovation; Digital economy; Development; AI governance; Gender; Climate change; China and Southeast Asia; Qualitative methods; Digital storytelling

Dr Robert Basedow
Assistant Professor in International Political Economy

Expertise: EU trade policy; trade agreements; EU international investment policy; investment arbitration; investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS); investment liberalisation; World Trade Organisation; Non-Tariff Barriers; international regulatory cooperation

Dr Steve Coulter
Guest Teacher in European Political Economy at the European Institute

Expertise: Labour Markets; Industrial Strategy; Skills; Sustainability; Varieties of Capitalism

Professor Riccardo Crescenzi
Professor of Economic Geography

Expertise: Brexit; economic geography; EU economic growth; EU policies; global restructuring; innovation; knowledge economy; local economic development; regional disparities; regional economic development

Professor Kevin Featherstone, AcSS
Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies; Professor of European Politics

Expertise: comparitive politics, public policy; political economy; politics of Brexit; politics of EU; Greek politics; European politics

Dr Max Fras
Visiting Fellow, European Institute

Expertise: EU foreign policy; EU development policy; EU enlargement; Eastern Europe; South Caucasus; Eastern Partnership; Western Balkans; Middle East; Africa; education; youth; youth policy; civil society; research policy; human rights; Council of Europe; United Nations

Dr Elitsa Garnizova
Director of Trade Policy Hub, LSE Consulting

Expertise: international trade; European trade policy; trade negotiations; non-tariff measures; regulatory issues; preferential trade and investment agreements; sustainable development; sustainability impact assessments; human rights

Dr Bob Hancké
Associate Professor of Political Economy, European Institute

Expertise: advanced capitalist societies; institutions and macro-economic policy; labour relations; political economy; transition economies

Hosuk Lee-Makiyama
Fellow, Department of International Relations; Director of ECIPE; Business Adviser at the Trade Policy Hub, LSE Consulting

Expertise: European Union; EU trade agreements; EU single market; trade defence; healthcare; digital economy; WTO and globalization; far-east; North-America; Russia & Eurasia; South Asia & Oceania

Professor Martin Lodge
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy; Director, Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR)

Expertise: British public policy; EU public policy; German public policy; government; institutional analysis; political science; public policy

Dr Ian Roxan
Associate Professor, LSE Law School

Expertise: civil law countries; corporate finance; corporate taxation; EU VAT; European taxation; international taxation; stamp duty; tax policy; taxation; trustee investments; trusts

Dr Waltraud Schelkle
Associate Professor of Political Economy, European Institute

Expertise: European integration; European Monetary Union; financial markets and social policy; United Germany

Julius Sen
Associate Director and Senior Programme Advisor, LSE Enterprise

Expertise: EU history, institutions, policies and processes; EU integration policies and processes; Single Market, EU trade policies and completing Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); the EU and other regional trade agreements compared; EU relations with emerging economies

Arnaud Vaganay
Research Associate, LSE Consulting

Expertise: comparative political economy; employment and social policies; programme and policy evaluation; research methods (mixed methods); role of evidence in policy-making; social experiments

Professor Paul De Grauwe
John Paulson Chair in European Political Economy, European Institute

Expertise: European political economy; international economics; foreign-exchange markets; international monetary relations; monetary integration; open-economy macroeconomics

Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra
Lecturer in Political Economy

Expertise: venture capital; innovation; industrial policy; East Asia; economic competitiveness; entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial finance; rationality; inclusive innovation; social impact

Dr Ian Roxan
Associate Professor, LSE Law School

Expertise: civil law countries; corporate finance; corporate taxation; EU VAT; European taxation; international taxation; stamp duty; tax policy; taxation; trustee investments; trusts

Dr Aris Angelis
Assistant Professor in Health Economics, LSHTM
Visiting Fellow at the Department of Health Policy, LSE

Expertise: access to medicines; biomedical innovation; decision analysis; economic evaluation; health economics; health policy; health technology assessment; multiple criteria decision analysis; pharmaceutical economics; pharmaceutical policy; pharmaceutical regulation; priority setting; value assessment

Professor Jennifer Beecham
Professor of Health and Social Care Economics

Expertise: adults; children; eating disorders; economic evaluation; intellectual disabilities; mental health; social care; social services; unit costs

Eva-Maria Bonin
Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC; formerly PSSRU)

Expertise: child and adolescent mental health; healthcare; health economics; interventions for children; mental health service provision; social cost of mental health; social care

Dr Joan Costa-Font
Professor of Health Economics an Co-director of the MSc International Health Policy, Department of Health Policy

Expertise: behavioural incentives; ageing, long term care, health disadvantage; healthy lifestyles; smoking, obesity, sleep, food , exercise; gender, family and health

Dr José-Luis Fernández
Associate Professorial Research Fellow, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC; formerly PSSRU); Director of CPEC

Expertise: community care; consumer directed care; elderly; health economics; social care economics

Dr Matteo M Galizzi
Associate Professor of Behavioural Science; Co-Director of Executive MSc in Behavioural Science

Expertise: behavioural economics; experimental economics; health economics; experimental design; behavioural experiments in health; behavioural spillovers; behavioural data linking; external validity, generalizability, and replicability of economic experiments

Dr Jennifer Gill
Associate Director, Medical Technology Research Group (MTRG)

Expertise: pharmacology; genetics; project management; health communication; knowledge transfer; public health; pharmacy policy; chronic pain; population ageing; cancer; MS

Dr Panos Kanavos
Associate Professor of International Health Policy, Department of Health Policy

Expertise: health economics; health technology assessment; economics of medical technologies; pharmaceuticals; disease management; quality of care

Professor Martin Knapp
Professor of Social Policy, Department of Health Policy; Director of NIHR School for Social Care Research

Expertise: community care policy; dementia; health economics; health policy; long-term care; mental health; mental health economics; social services; social care

Professor of Health and Social Care Policy

Dr Grace Lordan
Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science; Research Affiliate, Centre of Economic Performance (CEP)

Expertise: diversity and inclusion; discrimination; worker wellbeing; gender; inequality; health economics; labour economics

Professor Alistair McGuire
Head of Department of Health Policy
Professor of Health Economics

Expertise: economics; health care; health economics; social care; social policy

Professor Elias Mossialos
Deputy Head, Department of Health Policy
Director of LSE Health
Professor of Health Policy

Expertise: antibiotics; cancer care and policy; European health policies; health systems and policy; funding health care; pharmaceutical policies; private health insurance

Dr Huseyin Naci
Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Department of Health Policy

Expertise: cardiovascular disease; comparative effectiveness research; health care; health policy; health technology; pharmaceutical regulation; research design; systematic reviews

Professor Ken Shadlen
Professor of Development Studies, Department of International Development

Expertise: Latin America; World Trade Organization (WTO); debt and developing countries; industrial policy; intellectual property rights; international institutions; patents; pharmaceuticals; politics; trade and industrial strategy

Dr Michela Tinelli
Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC; formerly PSSRU)

Expertise: chronic disease; health care; health economics; health policy; pharmaceutical chemistry; public health; social care; socioeconomics

Dr Bert Provan
Senior Policy Fellow and Knowledge Broker, CASE (Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion)

Expertise: French and European housing policies; housing and rough sleeping; neighbourhood renewal; social impact of regeneration; social return on investment

Kathleen Scanlon
Distinguished Policy Fellow, LSE London
Deputy Director, LSE London

Expertise: housing finance; housing policy; urban policy

Professor Christine Whitehead
Professor Emeritus in Housing Economics

Expertise: housing economics; housing finance; housing policy; privatisation; urban land markets; urban policy

Dr Tania Burchardt
Director of CASE (Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion)

Expertise: equality; welfare policies; social inclusion; social policy; theories of justice

Dr Joan Costa-Font
Professor of Health Economics an Co-director of the MSc International Health Policy, Department of Health Policy

Expertise: behavioural incentives; ageing, long term care, health disadvantage; healthy lifestyles; smoking, obesity, sleep, food , exercise; gender, family and health

Professor Neil Lee
Professor of Economic Geography

Expertise: economic geography; local and regional development; innovation; SME finance; technological change; future of work; inequality; labour markets; inclusive growth

Dr Grace Lordan
Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science; Research Affiliate, Centre of Economic Performance (CEP)

Expertise: diversity and inclusion; discrimination; worker wellbeing; gender; inequality; health economics; labour economics

Dr Kitty Stewart
Associate Professor, Department of Social Policy; Associate Director, CASE (Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion)

Expertise: child poverty; early years policy; EU regional disparities; inequality; low skilled employment; social exclusion

Dr John Morrow
Senior Lecturer in Economics

Expertise: international trade; international economics; political economy; industrial development

Professor Ken Shadlen
Professor of Development Studies, Department of International Development

Expertise: Latin America; World Trade Organization (WTO); debt and developing countries; industrial policy; intellectual property rights; international institutions; patents; pharmaceuticals; politics; trade and industrial strategy

Dr Steve Coulter
Guest Teacher in European Political Economy at the European Institute

Expertise: Labour Markets; Industrial Strategy; Skills; Sustainability; Varieties of Capitalism

Dr Niccolo Durazzi
Research Associate, LSE Consulting

Expertise: higher education; skill formation and labour market policy; comparative political economy; comparative social policy

Dr Bob Hancké
Associate Professor of Political Economy, European Institute

Expertise: advanced capitalist societies; institutions and macro-economic policy; labour relations; political economy; transition economies

Professor Conor Gearty
Professor of Human Rights Law, LSE Law School

Expertise: human rights; terrorism; civil liberties

Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp
Associate Professor of Law, LSE Law School

Expertise: international arbitration; trade agreements; international investment law; investor-state-dispute settlement (ISDS); commercial contracts; international transactions; EU law; international law; comparative law

Professor Andrew Lang
Professor of Law, Chair in International Law and Global Governance

Expertise: international law; international trade law; international economic law; world trade organization; global governance; WTO; free trade agreements; international investment agreements

Edmund-Philipp Schuster
Associate Professor, LSE Law School

Expertise: corporate law; harmonisation of company law on European level; finance; takeover regulation

Dr Alexander Grous
Academic Associate, LSE Enterprise

Expertise: aerospace; betting and gaming; broadcasting; DRM; e-commerce; ERP; franchising; information systems; internet; mobile and satellite telecommunications; new media; P2P; programme management; software

Professor Sonia Livingstone
Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media and Communications

Expertise: children and new media; internet use; media audiences; media literacy; mediated participation; online risks and safety; public engagement with communication regulation

Dr Grace Yuehan Wang
Visiting Fellow, Department of Media and Communications

Expertise: Entrepreneurship and technological innovation; Digital economy; Development; AI governance; Gender; Climate change; China and Southeast Asia; Qualitative methods; Digital storytelling

Dr Christine Côté
Associate Professorial Lecturer, Department of Management

Expertise: international trade and investment policy and negotiation; international investment agreements and investment arbitration; globalization and its impact on national regulation; foreign direct investment and the internationalization strategies of firms

Professor Saul Estrin
Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy; Head of the Department of Management

Expertise: institutions in emerging markets and their impact on foreign direct investment and entrepreneurial activity; state owned firms, business groups and social enterprises in emerging markets; internationalisation of firms in emerging markets; early stage entrepreneurial finance; equity crowdfunding and angel investing

Dr Kari Koskinen
LSE Fellow, Department of Management

Expertise: digital innovation; digital platforms; open innovation; technology innovation and entrepreneurship in the global South; qualitative methods in management research; digital data production and usage; socio-technical systems

Professor Michael Bruter
Professor of Political Science and European Politics, Department of Government

Expertise: electoral psychology; electoral ergonomics; political behaviour, political science; voter's psychology

Dr Joan Costa-Font
Professor of Health Economics an Co-director of the MSc International Health Policy, Department of Health Policy

Expertise: behavioural incentives; ageing, long term care, health disadvantage; healthy lifestyles; smoking, obesity, sleep, food , exercise; gender, family and health

Dr Matteo M Galizzi
Associate Professor of Behavioural Science; Co-Director of Executive MSc in Behavioural Science

Expertise: behavioural economics; experimental economics; health economics; experimental design; behavioural experiments in health; behavioural spillovers; behavioural data linking; external validity, generalizability, and replicability of economic experiments

Professor Alex Gillespie
Professor, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science

Expertise: behavioural science; fieldwork in health care; psychological science

Dr Sarah Harrison
Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, Department of Government

Expertise: electoral psychology, elections, electoral behaviour, electoral ergonomics, political participation, youth, democratic frustration, quantitative & qualitative methodologies

Dr Grace Lordan
Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science; Research Affiliate, Centre of Economic Performance (CEP)

Expertise: diversity and inclusion; discrimination; worker wellbeing; gender; inequality; health economics; labour economics

Dr Michael Muthukrishna
Associate Professor of Economic Psychology

Expertise: assimilation; behavioural sciences; corruption; cross-cultural psychology; cultural and social change; data science; democracy; economic psychology; entrepreneurship; human evolution; innovation; intelligence; multiculturalism; cultural evolution

Dr Tom Reader
Associate Professor in Organisational Psychology

Expertise: decision-making; human error; leadership; non-technical skills; oil and gas; organisational culture; patient safety; safety; situation awareness; team mental models; teamwork

Dr Chris Tennant
Visiting Teacher

Expertise: classical languages; climate change; driverless cars; neuroscience; philosophy

Professor Michael Bruter
Professor of Political Science and European Politics, Department of Government

Expertise: electoral psychology; electoral ergonomics; political behaviour, political science; voter's psychology

Professor Conor Gearty
Professor of Human Rights Law, LSE Law School

Expertise: human rights; terrorism; civil liberties

Dr Sarah Harrison
Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, Department of Government

Expertise: electoral psychology, elections, electoral behaviour, electoral ergonomics, political participation, youth, democratic frustration, quantitative & qualitative methodologies

Professor Martin Lodge
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy; Director of CARR (Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation)

Expertise: British public policy; EU public policy; German public policy; government; institutional analysis; political science; public policy

Julius Sen
Associate Director and Senior Programme Advisor, LSE Enterprise

Expertise: public policy processes compared; the Treasury Green book and the public policy cycle; the role of regulations in creating markets; assessing costs and benefits of regulations and policies; regulation and growth; regulation and inequality; regulation and climate change.

Edmund-Philipp Schuster
Associate Professor, LSE Law School

Expertise: corporate law; harmonisation of company law on European level; finance; takeover regulation

Professor Tony Travers
Director of LSE London; Visiting Professor, Department of Government

Expertise: city government; local government; London; public finance; schools' finance

Dr Christian Busch
Author; Professor; Co-founder

Expertise: Entrepreneurship, Future of Business, Innovation, Purpose-driven Leadership, Serendipity, Social innovation

Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra
Lecturer in Political Economy

Expertise: venture capital; innovation; industrial policy; East Asia; economic competitiveness; entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial finance; rationality; inclusive innovation; social impact

Professor Neil Lee
Professor of Economic Geography

Expertise: economic geography; local and regional development; innovation; SME finance; technological change; future of work; inequality; labour markets; inclusive growth

Edmund-Philipp Schuster
Associate Professor, LSE Law School

Expertise: corporate law; harmonisation of company law on European level; finance; takeover regulation

Professor Ken Shadlen
Professor of Development Studies, Department of International Development

Dr Carsten Sørensen
Associate Professor (Reader) in Digital Innovation, Department of Management

Expertise: digital infrastructures; digital innovation; distributed ledger technologies, blockchain, crypto currencies, non-fungible tokens, information services automation; mobile platforms; mobile technologies; the future of work

Dr Will Venters
Associate Professor of Information Systems

Expertise: digital innovation; digital platforms; cloud computing; digital interfaces and ecosystems; business agility; artificial intelligence within business; digital systems development

Dr Grace Yuehan Wang
Visiting Fellow, Department of Media and Communications

Expertise: Entrepreneurship and technological innovation (with a focus on Asia-pacific and Africa); Digital economy; Development (with a focus on Asia-Pacific and Africa); AI governance; gender; climate change (narrative discourse and clean energy); China and Southeast Asia; Qualitative methods (elite interviews in a cross-cultural setting); Digital storytelling

Dr Christine Côté
Associate Professorial Lecturer, Department of Management

Expertise: international trade and investment policy and negotiation; international investment agreements and investment arbitration; globalization and its impact on national regulation; foreign direct investment and the internationalization strategies of firms

Dr Swati Dhingra
Assistant Professor of Economics

Expertise: industrial policy; globalisation; international economics; trade policy; industrial organisation

Hosuk Lee-Makiyama
Fellow, Department of International Relations; Director of ECIPE; Business Adviser at the Trade Policy Hub, LSE Consulting

Dr John Morrow
Senior Lecturer in Economics

Expertise: international trade; international economics; political economy; industrial development

Professor Gianmarco Ottaviano
Professor of Economics

Expertise: economic geography; economics; foreign direct investment; immigration; international trade; multinationals; urban economics

Dr Thomas Sampson
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics

Expertise: international trade; Brexit; economic growth and development

Julius Sen
Associate Director and Senior Programme Advisor, LSE Enterprise

Expertise: debt and policy reform; growth strategies for developing countries; globalisation; India; international economic management; international trade; political management; WTO and Regional or Preferential Trade Agreements; new generation of trade agreements

Professor Ken Shadlen
Professor of Development Studies, Department of International Development

Dr Stephen Woolcock
Visiting Associate in LSE International Trade Policy Unit, Department of International Relations

Expertise: EU trade and investment policies; European trade; international investment policy; international trade; preferential trade and investment agreements; trade negotiations; trade policy; World Trade Organization

Dr Philipp Rode
Executive Director, LSE Cities; Associate Professorial Research Fellow

Expertise: architecture; cities and climate change; city design; global cities; public space; strategic planning; transport; urban policy; urban regeneration; urban sustainability

Kathleen Scanlon
Distinguished Policy Fellow, LSE London
Deputy Director, LSE London

Expertise: housing finance; housing policy; urban policy

Professor Tony Travers
Director of LSE London; Visiting Professor, Department of Government

Expertise: city government; local government; London; public finance; schools' finance

Dr Savvas Verdis
Senior Research Fellow, LSE Cities; Co-director of Executive Masters in Cities, LSE Cities

Expertise: public leadership & narrative; measuring city economies; urban economic development

Dr Grace Yuehan Wang
Visiting Fellow, Department of Media and Communications

Expertise: Entrepreneurship and technological innovation; Digital economy; Development; AI governance; Gender; Climate change; China and Southeast Asia; Qualitative methods; Digital storytelling

Professor Christine Whitehead
Professor Emeritus in Housing Economics

Expertise: housing economics; housing finance; housing policy; privatisation; urban land markets; urban policy