People

Professor Tim Allen

Professor of Development Anthropology 
Director of the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa

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Dr Lydia Assouad

Assistant Professor in Development Management

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Professor Catherine Boone

Professor of Comparative Politics and African Political Economy

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Professor Ernestina Coast 

Professor of Health and International Development
Programme Director, Health and International Development

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Professor Jean-Paul Faguet

Professor of the Political Economy of Development
Programme Co-Director, Development Management

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Dr Tasha Fairfield

Associate Professor in Development Studies

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Professor Tim Forsyth (Sabbatical 2022/23)

Professor of Environment and Development

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Dr Arjan Gjonça (Sabbatical LT + ST)

Associate Professor of Demography 

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Dr Stuart Gordon 

Associate Professorial Lecturer in Managing Humanitarianism
Programme Co-Director, International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies

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Dr Duncan Green

Senior Strategic Adviser, Oxfam UK, and Professor in Practice

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Dr Elliott Green

Associate Professor in Development Studies

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Dr Lloyd Gruber (Sabbatical 2022/23)

Assistant Professor in Political Economy of Development

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Dr Tine Hanrieder

Assistant Professor in Health and International Development 

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Professor Kathryn Hochstetler

Professor of International Development
Head of Department 

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Professor Naila Kabeer 

Professor of Gender and Development 

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Dr Sohini Kar (Sabbatical LT + ST)

Associate Professor International Development 

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Professor David Keen

Professor of Conflict Studies

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Dr Tiziana Leone 

Associate Professor in Health and International Development

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Professor David Lewis 

Professor of Anthropology and Development

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Dr Shirin Madon

Associate Professor in ICTs and Socio-Economic Development

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Dr Laura Mann

Assistant Professor International Development 

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Dr Kate Meagher

Associate Professor in Development Studies

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Dr Philipa Mladovsky

Assistant Professor in International Development

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Dr Joana Naritomi 

Associate Professor 
Development Economics

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Professor James Putzel (Sabbatical 2022/23)

Professor of Development Studies
Programme Director, Development Studies and Research

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Dr Sandra Sequeira

Associate Professor in Development Economics

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Professor Ken Shadlen 

Professor of Development Studies

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Dr Mahvish Shami

Assistant Professor in Development Studies
Programme Co-Director of Development Management

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Dr Rajesh Venugopal

Associate Professor

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Professor Robert Wade 

Professor of Political Economy and Development

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Dr Diana Weinhold

Associate Professor in Development Economics

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Dr Carolin Dieterle

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow 

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Dr Karen Schouw Iversen

LSE Fellow Programme 

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Dr Hassan Ould Moctar

LSE Fellow Programme

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Dr Greta Seibel

LSE Fellow 

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Professor Alaka Basu

Visiting Senior Fellow

Alaka Basu is a Social Demographer and has published widely in the areas of reproductive health, gender and development, child health, the interface of fiction and the politics of population policy. 

She served on the governing boards of the Population Association of America, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, the Population Council and the Population Reference Bureau, was the chair of the IUSSP Scientific Committee on Anthropological Demography, a member of the Committees on Reproductive Health and on Population Projections of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a member of the Lancet-Guttmacher Commission on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.

She is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Population and Development Review, Genealogy, and The Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, and the series editor of the Policy Briefs produced by the Sociology of Development section of the American Sociological Association.

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Dr Joseph Hanlon

Visiting Senior Fellow

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Dr Rishita Nandagiri Nandagiri

Visiting Fellow

Dr Rishita Nandagiri (she/her) is an LSE Visiting Fellow (11/2022 to 11/2025). She is a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on gender, abortion and reproductive (in)justices in the Global South; interrogating how power and politics manifest and are wielded at micro, meso, and macro levels. She has previously held postdoctoral positions at LSE, including an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship (2020-2021). She serves on the IUSSP Abortion Research Panel, is an editorial advisory board member of BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health, and co-convenes the DSA Women & Development Study Group.

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Duncan Green

Professor in Practice
Senior Strategic Adviser, Oxfam UK

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Kate Gilmore

Visiting Professor in Practice
Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations

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Mark Lowcock

Visiting Professor in Practice
Permanent Secretary for the Department for International Development between 9 June 2011 and 7 July 2017, and, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator between 2017 and 2021

Professor David Luke

Professor in Practice and Strategic Director
Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa

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Dr Madhuri Agarwal

Guest Teacher

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Professor E A (Teddy) Brett

Emeritus Professor of International Development

Professor Brett has been involved in research, teaching and practice in Development since the 1960s, first in South Africa at Witwatersrand University, then in Uganda at Makerere University in the 1960s and 1970s, and at Sussex University and the Institute of Development Studies from 1967 to 1992. He joined the Development Studies Institute, now Department of International Development at the LSE in 1993, and was a Visiting Fellow at Witwatersrand University from 2001 to 2005. He completed his PhD in Political Science at the LSE in 1966, and has published extensively on African Political Economy, with special reference to Uganda and Zimbabwe, on International Political Economy, Civic Institutions and Development Theory, and participated in research and consultancy projects sponsored by the World Bank, DFID, and DANIDA. 

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Allison Benson Hernandez

Allison received her PhD from the London School of Economics in 2020. Her Bachelor and Master Degrees are in Economics, from Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia. Her dissertation was titled “Sources of financial, social and political capital in rural Colombia”. Her research interests include Political Economy, Rural Development, Inequality, Social Policy, Peace Building. She relies on both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.

Chao-Yo Cheng

Chao-yo Cheng is a Lecturer in Quantitative Social Research at Birkbeck, University of London. He has a PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He applies various quantitative and qualitative methods to address a range of topics in the political economy of institutions and development. His research focuses on unpacking the institutional and policy foundations of nation-state building and socioeconomic development in multi-ethnic societies. 

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Professor Tim Dyson

Emeritus Professor of Population Studies

Tim Dyson is Emeritus Professor of Population Studies. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2001 and has held visiting positions at the Australian National University in Canberra, the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai, and the American University of Beirut. In 1997 he was the lead speaker at the Oxford Farming Conference, and in 2015 he delivered the keynote address at the United Nations Commission on Population and Development in New York. Much of his research has involved studying aggregate demographic processes. 

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Francisco Ferreira

Francisco H. G. Ferreira is the Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics. Francisco is an economist working on the measurement, causes and consequences of inequality and poverty, with an emphasis on developing countries in general and Latin America in particular. Some of his recent work has focused on the definition and measurement of inequality of opportunity. 

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Annie Kuse

Annie is currently working on research that explores the connections between the informal economy and revolution in North Africa. She received her MSc in Anthropology and Development from the LSE in 2020, and her undergraduate degree in Anthropology and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2017.  

Dr Stephanie Levy

Stephanie is a development economist with over 15 years of experience in rural development and poverty reduction policies in Africa and South-East Asia. Stephanie has an extensive experience of modelling and policy analysis using simulation tools and quantitative analysis methods. As an academic researcher, she worked on agricultural development policies, including natural resources management, public investment in rural infrastructure and services, food price and poverty reduction.

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Elizabeth Ngutuku

Elizabeth Ngutuku is a research fellow at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. She holds a PhD in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her PhD research explored children’s complex lived experience of poverty and vulnerability in Kenya. Eliza has over 20 years of experience, working on issues of children and youth in the Eastern Africa region, and her primary focus is on child poverty & vulnerability, social protection, youth activism, sexual and reproductive health & rights, and young people’s experience in conflict situations. Elizabeth speaks Swahili and English. 

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Reece Sisto 

Reece is currently researching the relationship between liberalism and right- and left-wing revolutions in Chile and Bolivia. Before receiving his MSc in Development Studies from the LSE in 2020, Reece was conducting research on the triangular relationship between armed conflict, peace-building, and LGBTQ+ hate crimes as a Fulbright scholar in Bogotá, Colombia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Urban Studies in 2018. 

James Walters 

Dr James Walters is founding director of the LSE Faith Centre which works to promote religious understanding and interfaith leadership among the LSE’s global student body, in government and to the wider public. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the LSE Marshall Institute and Chaplain to the School. He works with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to promote diplomatic engagement with religious communities and contributes to several interfaith initiatives in the Middle East. He has published a number of books including Baudrillard and Theology, Religion and the Public Sphere: New Conversations, Religious Imaginations and Global Transitions and Loving Your Neighbour in an Age of Religious Conflict. He was educated at Cambridge University and ordained priest in the Church of England in 2008 within which he is now a canon of Chichester Cathedral and represents universities on the General Synod, the Church’s governing body.

Matthew Redfearn

Department Manager

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Drucilla Nelson

Deputy Department Manager

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Andrea Merino-Mayayo

MSc Programme Manager

Course Administrator: MSc Development Management  

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Charlotte McKay

MSc Course Administrator: MSc Development Studies

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Maria Do-Prado

MSc course Administrator: MSc Health and International Development, and MSc International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies

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Dipa Patel

Communications and Events Manager
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Nina Craven

PhD Programme Manager 

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