People

Head of Department
Professor Paul Kelly
gov.hod@lse.ac.uk

Department Manager
Imran Iqbal
i.iqbal2@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)207 955 7908

Deputy Department Manager
Natalie Paris
n.paris2@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)207 955 7909

Faculty Enquiries
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Undergraduate Enquiries
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Postgraduate Enquiries
gov.msc@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)207 955 6300

PhD Enquiries
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Please note, our student desk is at CBG 3.20 and our opening hours are weekdays, 10.00am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 4.00pm.

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Maximillian Afnan
Thesis: 'Globalisation, Legitimacy and Public Deliberation'
m.a.afnan@lse.ac.uk

Meshal Alkhowaiter
Thesis: 'How targeted economic policies shape government approval in non-democratic and rentier countries'
m.alkhowaiter@lse.ac.uk

Laurence Antao
l.a.antao@lse.ac.uk

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Tom Bailey
t.j.bailey@lse.ac.uk

Luis Bosshart
Thesis: 'Essays in coming to terms with the past: Transitional justice and memory in postwar Germany'
l.s.bosshart@lse.ac.uk

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Morris Chan (MRes Student)
m.s.chan1@lse.ac.uk

Vanessa Cheng-Matsuno
Thesis: 'Political Instability: Does it Disrupt the Bureaucracy?'
v.cheng-matsuno@lse.ac.uk

Joel Chong (MRes Student)
Thesis: 'Disenchanting the Divine'
j.z.chong@lse.ac.uk

Asli Ceren Cinar
Thesis: 'The impact of physical characteristics on candidate evaluation'
a.cinar@lse.ac.uk

Cristina Conesa Pla (MRes Student)
c.conesa-pla@lse.ac.uk

Julia Costet
j.costet@lse.ac.uk 

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Reuben Finighan
r.finighan@lse.ac.uk

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Hilke Gudel
h.gudel@lse.ac.uk

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Vincent Harting
Thesis: 'Material Constitutionalism and the Politics of Anti-Oligarchy'
v.a.harting@lse.ac.uk

Martin Haus
Thesis: 'Three Essays on Bureaucracy and Public Schools in Rural India'
m.haus@lse.ac.uk

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Angga Indraswara
Thesis: 'Beyond Numbers: A Comparative Analysis of Christian Minority Groups in Indonesia'
a.indraswara@lse.ac.uk

Gaetano Inglese (MRes Student)
g.inglese@lse.ac.uk

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Sarah Jewett
s.jewett1@lse.ac.uk

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Yusuf Imaad Khan (MRes Student)
y.i.khan@lse.ac.uk

Max Kiefel
Thesis: '‘For the Many, Not the Few’: the re-organisation of Social Democratic parties'
m.kiefel@lse.ac.uk

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Rune Wriedt Larsen
Thesis: 'Civil War, Statebuilding, and Types of Armed Organisations in Southeast Asia'
r.w.larsen@lse.ac.uk

Tiffany Lau
Thesis: 'Trolling in the Deep: The US 2016 Elections, the Russian Internet Research Agency, and Affective Polarisation on Reddit'
t.t.lau@lse.ac.uk

Katharina Lawall
Thesis: 'The causes and consequences of negative partisanship in multi-party systems'
k.lawall@lse.ac.uk

Nick Lewis
Thesis: 'Do social media create bias in democratic deliberation?'
n.lewis3@lse.ac.uk

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Xufan (Nadia) Ma
Thesis: 'Chinese Feminism 1980s-2010s'
x.ma19@lse.ac.uk

Andrew McNeil
Thesis: 'Intergenerational social mobility and anti-system voting – The journey matters'
a.mcneil@lse.ac.uk

Frieder Mitsch
f.mitsch@lse.ac.uk

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Miran Norderland
m.a.norderland@lse.ac.uk

Oscar Nowlan
o.w.nowlan@lse.ac.uk

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Emma Obermair (MRes Student)
e.obermair@lse.ac.uk

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Alberto Parmigiani
Thesis: 'Essays on Economic and Political Inequalities'
a.parmigiani@lse.ac.uk

Michal Pasovsky
Thesis: (TBD) 'Multitudes of Denial in a Settler-Colonial State'
m.pasovsky@lse.ac.uk

Ariel Perkins
a.a.perkins@lse.ac.uk

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Diego Sazo
Thesis: 'Furious Democracies: Dismissive Governments and the Rise of Violent Dissent in South America, 2018-2020'
d.n.sazo-munoz@lse.ac.uk

Greta Schenke (MRes Student)
Thesis: 'The Democratic Turnaround: Patterns and Origins of Reverted Autocratization'
g.p.schenke@lse.ac.uk

Asfa Shakeel (MRes Student)
a.shakeel2@lse.ac.uk

Cain Shelley
Thesis: 'Class Consciousness and the Struggle for Economic Justice'
c.b.shelley@lse.ac.uk

Andreas-Johann Sorger
Thesis: 'A Philosophical Colour Line: Racism and Political Theory'
a.j.sorger@lse.ac.uk

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Carol Thanki
c.thanki2@lse.ac.uk

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Lorenzo Vicari
l.vicari@lse.ac.uk

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Stephanie Wanga
Thesis: 'Freedom Propaganda: A Critical Engagement with Statehood in East Africa'
s.s.wanga@lse.ac.uk

Jan Wasserziehr (MRes Student)
j.h.wasserziehr@lse.ac.uk

Felix Westerén
Thesis: 'Preserving value in the face of climate change: a pluralist account'
f.j.westeren@lse.ac.uk

Peter Wyckoff (MRes Student)
Thesis: 'Employment, climate policy and legislative politics'
p.s.wyckoff@lse.ac.uk

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Alex Yeandle
Thesis: 'Information and Electoral Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa'
a.r.yeandle@lse.ac.uk

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Antoine Zerbini
Thesis: 'Essays in Informational Political Economy'
a.r.zerbini@lse.ac.uk

Emeritus | Affiliated | Visiting

 

Emeritus and Retired academic staff

• Sebastian Balfour (Prof) - Emeritus Professor in Contemporary Spanish Studies

• John Barnes (Mr)

• Rodney Barker (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Government

• John Breuilly (Prof) - Emeritus Professor in Nationalism and Ethnicity

• John Charvet (Prof) - Emeritus Professor in Political Science

• Janet Coleman (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Ancient and Medieval Political Thought

• Patrick Dunleavy (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy

• John Gray (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of European Thought

• Chun Lin (Prof) - Emeritus Professor in Comparative Politics

• John Madeley (Mr)

• Anne Phillips (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Political Science

• David Soskice (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Economics

• Ernest Thorp (Mr)

Affiliated academic staff

• Michael Barzelay (Prof) - Professor of Public Management

• Charlie Beckett (Prof) - Director of Polis

• Kenneth Benoit (Prof) -  Head of the Methodology Institute

• Jean-Paul Faguet (Prof) - Professor of the Political Economy of Development, Department of International Development

• Tasha Fairfeld (Dr) - Assistant Professor, Department of International Development

• Kevin Featherstone (Prof) - Director, Hellenic Observatory

• Benjamin Lauderdale (Dr) - Methodology Institute

• Javier Ortega (Prof) - Professor of Economics (Kingston University London)

• James Putzel (Prof) - Professor of Development Studies

• Ken Shadlen (Prof) - Senior Lecturer in Development Studies

• Jonathan White (Prof) - Associate Professor (Reader) of European Politics, European Institute

Visiting academic staff

• Claudia Aguilar (Ms) - Visiting Fellow (until July 2023)

• David Banisar (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until April 2024)
• Ileana Beade (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until July 2023)
• Andrea Capussela (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until April 2026)

• Daniel de Kadt (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until February 2025)

• Thoraya El-Rayyes (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until March 2024)

• Francesco Maria Esposito (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until December 2023)

• Dominik Hangartner (Dr) - Visiting Professor (until November 2024)

• Hwa Young Kim (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until September 2023)

• Bruno Leipold (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until October 2025)

• Julia Leschke (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until March 2024)

• Andrew Little (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until July 2023)

• Yolanda Meyenberg Leycegui (Dr) - Visiting Professor (until September 2023)

• Richard Mottram (Sir) - Visiting Professor (until September 2024)

• Geoffrey Myers (Prof) - Visiting Professor in Practice (until August 2026)

• Temi Ogunye (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until May 2023)

• Elena Pupaza (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until January 2025)

• Antoni Rodon-Casarramona (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until December 2025)

• Nelson Ruiz (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until May 2026)

• Cain Shelley (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until January 2024)

• Lukas Slothuus (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until September 2023)

• Tinghua Yu (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until February 2025)