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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
Kate Jessop
k.a.jessop@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)207 955 7909

Faculty Enquiries
gov.faculty@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)207 955 7908

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

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Paul Apostolidis (Dr)
Associate Professorial Lecturer and Deputy Head of Department for Education
Room CBG 3.07 | +44 (0)207 955 6295 | p.apostolidis@lse.ac.uk

Emiel Awad (Dr)
LSE Fellow
Room CBG 3.10 | e.awad@lse.ac.uk

Paolo Belardinelli (Dr)
Fellow in Public Policy and Administration
Room CBG 3.08 | +44 (0)207 955 5385 | p.belardinelli@lse.ac.uk

Daniel Berliner (Dr)
Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy
Room CBG 3.15 | +44 (0)207 955 5335 | d.berliner@lse.ac.uk

Sevinç Bermek (Dr)
Fellow
Room CBG 3.15 | s.bermek@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Professor Catherine Boone

Catherine Boone (Prof)
Professor of Comparative Politics
+44 (0)207 107 5153 | c.boone@lse.ac.uk

Sarah Brierley (Dr)
Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics
Room CBG 4.37 | +44 (0)207 955 5666 | s.brierley@lse.ac.uk

Michael Bruter (Prof)
Professor of Political Science and European Politics
Room CBG 3.03 | +44 (0)207 955 6547 | m.bruter@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Professor John Chalcraft

John Chalcraft (Prof)
Professor in Middle East History and Politics
Room CBG 4.19 | +44 (0)207 955 6630 | j.t.chalcraft@lse.ac.uk

Luke J. Davies (Dr)
LSE Fellow
Room CBG 3.11 | +44 (0)207 955 6816 | l.j.davies@lse.ac.uk

Torun Dewan (Prof)
Professor of Political Science
Room CBG 4.22 | +44 (0)207 955 6406 | t.dewan@lse.ac.uk

Vesselin Dimitrov (Dr)
Associate Professorial Lecturer in Eastern European Politics
Room CBG 4.38 | +44 (0)207 955 7173 | v.t.dimitrov@lse.ac.uk

Mathilde Emeriau
Assistant Professor in Empirical Political Economy
Room CBG 4.29 | +44 (0)207 955 5667 | m.emeriau@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Professor Katrin Flikschuh

Katrin Flikschuh (Prof)
Professor of Modern Political Theory
Room CBG 4.21 | +44 (0)207 955 7210 | k.a.flikschuh@lse.ac.uk

Florian Foos (Dr)
Assistant Professor in Political Behaviour
Room CBG 3.25 | f.foos@lse.ac.uk

Federico Fuchs
LSE Fellow
Room CBG 4.14 | f.fuchs@lse.ac.uk

Steffen Hertog (Dr)
Associate Professor in Comparative Politics
Room CBG 3.27 | +44 (0)207 955 7196 | s.hertog@lse.ac.uk

Sara Hobolt (Prof)
Sutherland Chair in European Institutions
Room CBG 4.34 | +44 (0)207 955 6153 | s.b.hobolt@lse.ac.uk

Jonathan Hopkin (Prof)
Professor of Comparative Politics
Room CBG 3.34 | +44 (0)207 955 6535 | j.r.hopkin@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Dr Rafael Hortala-Vallve

Rafael Hortala-Vallve (Dr)
Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy
Room CBG 4.27 | +44 (0)207 955 7176 | r.hortala-vallve@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Professor James Hughes

James Hughes (Prof)
Professor of Comparative Politics
Room CBG 3.33 | +44 (0)207 955 6898 | j.hughes@lse.ac.uk

Ryan Jablonski (Dr)
Associate Professor in Political Science
Room CBG 3.32 | +44 (0)207 852 3799 | r.s.jablonski@lse.ac.uk

Leigh Jenco (Prof)
Professor in Political Theory
Room CBG 4.25 | +44 (0)207 107 5253 | l.k.jenco@lse.ac.uk

Alexander Katsaitis (Dr)
Fellow in Public Policy & Administration
Room CBG 3.12 | a.katsaitis@lse.ac.uk

Paul Kelly (Prof)
Professor of Political Theory and Head of Department
Room CBG 4.18 | +44 (0)207 955 6113 | p.j.kelly@lse.ac.uk

Hwa Young Kim
LSE Fellow
Room CBG 4.14 | +44 (0)207 106 1267 | h.y.kim@lse.ac.uk

Bill Kissane (Dr)
Associate Professor (Reader)
Room CBG 3.39 | +44 (0)207 955 7900 | b.kissane@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Dr Mathias Koenig-Archibugi

Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (Dr)
Associate Professor in Global Politics
Room CBG 3.38 | +44 (0)207 955 7193 | m.koenig-archibugi@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Professor Valentino Larcinese

Valentino Larcinese (Prof)
Professor in Public Policy
Room CBG 3.02 | +44 (0)207 955 7037 | v.larcinese@lse.ac.uk

Bruno Leipold (Dr)
LSE Fellow in Political Theory
Room CBG 3.06 | +44 (0)207 955 7186 | b.leipold@lse.ac.uk

Michael Lerner (Dr)
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
Room CBG 4.21 | m.h.lerner@lse.ac.uk

Chun Lin (Prof)
Professor in Comparative Politics
Room CBG 4.20 | +44 (0)207 955 7197 | c.lin@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Professor Martin Lodge

Martin Lodge (Prof)
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
Room CBG 3.05 | +44 (0)207 849 4627 | m.lodge@lse.ac.uk

Omar McDoom (Dr)
Associate Professor in Comparative Politics
Room CBG 3.36 | +44 (0)207 955 7557 | o.s.mcdoom@lse.ac.uk

Paul Mitchell (Dr)
Associate Professor in European Politics and Political Methodology
Room CBG 3.30 | +44 (0)207 955 6340 | p.l.mitchell@lse.ac.uk

George Ofosu (Dr)
Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics
Room CBG 3.04 | +44 (0)207 955 5668 | g.ofosu@lse.ac.uk

Ed Page (Prof)
Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor in Public Policy
Room CBG 4.30 | +44 (0)207 849 4629 | e.c.page@lse.ac.uk

Francisco Panizza (Prof)
Professor of Latin American and Comparative Politics
Room CBG 4.32 | +44 (0)207 955 7681 | f.e.panizza@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Professor Anne Phillips.

Anne Phillips (Prof)
Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science
Room CBG 3.28 | +44 (0)207 955 6979 | a.phillips@lse.ac.uk

Mathias Poertner (Dr)
Assistant Professor of Political Behaviour
Room CBG 3.34 | m.poertner@lse.ac.uk

Stephanie Rickard (Prof)
Professor of Political Science
Room CBG 4.36 | +44 (0)207 849 4919 | s.rickard@lse.ac.uk

Melissa Sands (Dr)
Assistant Professor of Politics and Data Science
Room CBG 4.37 | m.sands@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey

Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey (Prof)
Professor in Political Science
Room CBG 3.09 | +44 (0)207 955 7187 | c.m.schonhardt-bailey@lse.ac.uk

John Sidel (Prof)
Sir Patrick Gillam Chair in International and Comparative Politics (Joint appointment with LSE International Relations)
Room CBG 3.35 | +44 (0)207 955 6032 | j.t.sidel@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Professor David Soskice

David Soskice (Prof)
LSE School Professor of Political Science and Economics
Room CBG 4.31 | +44 (0)207 852 3637 | d.w.soskice@lse.ac.uk

Kai Spiekermann (Prof)
Professor of Political Philosophy
Room CBG 4.26 | +44 (0)207 955 6516 | k.spiekermann@lse.ac.uk

Christine Stedtnitz (Dr)
LSE Fellow
Room CBG 4.13 | c.stedtnitz@lse.ac.uk

Eiko Thielemann (Dr)
Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy
+44 (0)207 955 6012 | e.thielemann@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Professor Tony Travers

Tony Travers (Prof)
Professor in Practice
+44 (0)207 955 7777 | a.travers@lse.ac.uk

Joachim Wehner (Dr)
Associate Professor in Public Policy
Room CBG 3.22 | +44 (0)207 955 5408 | j.h.wehner@lse.ac.uk

Stephane Wolton (Dr)
Associate Professor in Political Science
Room CBG 3.40 | +44 (0)207 107 5354 | s.wolton@lse.ac.uk

David Woodruff (Dr)
Associate Professor of Comparative Politics
Room CBG 3.31 | +44 (0)207 955 7282 | d.woodruff@lse.ac.uk

Lea Ypi (Prof)
Professor in Political Theory
Room CBG 4.33 | +44 (0)207 955 7066 | l.l.ypi@lse.ac.uk

Please note, our student desk is at CBG 3.20 and our opening hours are weekdays, 10:00–12:30 and 13:30–16:00.

Portrait photo of Imran

Imran Iqbal (Mr)
Department Manager
Room CBG 3.01 | +44 (0)207 955 7908 | i.iqbal2@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Department Strategy | The Communications, Research and Resources Team | The Teaching Team

Education Team

Kate Jessop (Ms)
Deputy Department Manager
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 7909 | k.a.jessop@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: The Teaching Team | Teaching Policy | Teaching Resourcing

Carla Seesunkur (Mrs)
Undergraduate Programmes Manager
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 6498 | gov.ug@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Undergraduate Study | Course Choice | Programme Regulations | Exams & Assessment | Student Welfare

Natalie Paris (Ms)
Undergraduate Adviser
Room CBG 3.21 | +44 (0)207 107 5186 | n.paris2@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: UG Student Welfare | Study Skills and Personal Development for UG Students

Mark Bryceland (Mr)
MSc Programmes Manager
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 6300 | gov.msc@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: MSc Programme Administration | Postgraduate Admissions | Assessments & Exams

Claudia Pikali (Mrs)
MSc Programme Administrator
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 6060 | gov.msc@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: MSc Programme Administration | Postgraduate Admissions / Assessments & Exams

Emily Metcalf (Ms)
PhD and Teaching Administrator
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 7929 | gov.phd@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: MRes/PhD Programme | Teaching administration/enquiries

Anisa Morina (Ms)
Student Experience Officer
Room CBG 3.20 | a.morina@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Student Experience | Student Events | Social Activities

Faculty Affairs Team

Karen Dickenson (Mrs)
Finance Officer
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 7748 | gov.research@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Finance

Maddie Giles (Ms)
Communications and Events Manager
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 7553 | gov.comms@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Events | Communications | Blog | Social Media

Clair Harrison (Ms)
Faculty Affairs Manager
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 849 4970 | gov.faculty@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Faculty Affairs

James Robins (Mr)
Web and Digital Media Manager
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)203 486 2617 | gov.website@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Website | Video & Multimedia Production | Blog | Social Media

Kevin Shields (Mr)
Faculty Affairs Administrator
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)20 7106 1199 | gov.faculty@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Faculty Affairs

Shelly Wilkley (Mrs)
Research Manager
Room CBG 3.20 | gov.research@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Research

Adrian Arellano (Dr)
Research Officer
Room CBG 3.27 | a.arellano2@lse.ac.uk

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Francisco Garcia-Gibson (Dr)
Research Fellow
Room CBG 4.35 | a.arellano2@lse.ac.uk

Sarah Harrison (Dr)
Associate Professorial Research Fellow (Electoral Psychology Observatory)
Room CBG 3.24 | s.l.harrison@lse.ac.uk

Adam Ozer
Research Officer (Electoral Psychology Observatory)

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Max Afnan
m.a.afnan@lse.ac.uk

Meshal Alkhowaiter (MRes Student)
m.alkhowaiter@lse.ac.uk

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

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

Elisa Cencig
Thesis: 'Lobbying across venues in EU financial regulation'
e.cencig@lse.ac.uk

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

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

Maurice Dunaiski
m.r.dunaiski@lse.ac.uk

Thoraya El-Rayyes
t.el-rayyes@lse.ac.uk

Reuben Finighan
r.finighan@lse.ac.uk

Hilke Gudel
h.gudel@lse.ac.uk

Vincent Harting
Thesis: 'Marxian 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

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

Sarah Jewett
s.jewett1@lse.ac.uk

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

Musa Kpaka
h.m.kpaka@lse.ac.uk

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

Tiffany Lau (MRes Student)
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

Julia Leschke
Thesis: 'Populism in Parties, Politicians and Public Opinion'
j.leschke@lse.ac.uk

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

Xufan (Nadia) Ma (MRes Student)
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

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

Oscar Nowlan (MRes Student)
o.w.nowlan@lse.ac.uk

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

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

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

Diego Sazo
Thesis: 'Conflict, polarization and the roots of collective violence in contemporary Chile'
d.n.sazo-munoz@lse.ac.uk

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

Andreas-Johann Sorger
Thesis: 'An Exploration of Philosophical Racism'
a.j.sorger@lse.ac.uk

Carol Thanki
c.thanki2@lse.ac.uk

Arduino Tomasi
Thesis: 'Essays on the political economy of developing countries'
a.a.tomasi@lse.ac.uk

Lorenzo Vicari (MRes Student)
l.vicari@lse.ac.uk

Stephanie Wanga
Thesis: 'Freedom Propaganda: Art and Politics in Africa in the 20th and 21st Centuries'
s.s.wanga@lse.ac.uk

Felix Westerén (MRes Student)
Thesis: 'What can the values and goods lost to climate change tell us about climate policy?'
f.j.westeren@lse.ac.uk

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

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
John Madeley (Mr)
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

Jann Boeddeling (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until October 2022)
Andrea Capussela (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until December 2020)
Antoni Rodon - Casarramona (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until October 2021)
Iman Dawood (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until December 2022)
Charlotte Haberstroh (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until August 2022)
Astrid Hampe-Nathaniel (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until October 2022)
Michael Hayle (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until October 2022)
John Hutchinson (Dr) - Senior Visiting Fellow (until September 2021)
Antoine Louette (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until October 2022)
Geoffrey Meyers (Prof) - Visiting Professor in Practice (until August 2023)
Richard Mottram (Sir) - Visiting Professor (until September 2021)
Temi Ogunye (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until May 2023)
Javier Ortega (Prof) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until August 2020)
Vesna Popovski (Dr) - Visiting Lecturer
Elena Pupaza (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until January 2023)
Jill Stuart (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until January 2023) and Dissertation Support Supervisor
Wang Leung Ting (Mr) - Visiting Fellow (until August 2022)
Christian Willmes - Visiting Fellow (until August 2022)

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