People

We offer a unique opportunity to study Actuarial Science, Data Science, Financial Statistics, Insurance and Risk and Social Statistics in a university with a world class reputation of academic excellence in the social sciences.

Department staff

Dr James Abdey
Associate Professor (Education)

Dr Mona Azadkia
Assistant Professor

Dr Marcos Barreto
Assistant Professor (Education), Department Lead on AI and KEI Strategic Lead

Professor Pauline Barrieu
Professor and Head of Department
Vice-Chair of Academic Board

Dr Erik Baurdoux
Associate Professor

Professor Wicher Bergsma
Professor

On sabbatical until Spring Term 2025

Professor Umut Cetin
Professor

Dr Yining Chen
Associate Professor

Dr Yunxiao Chen
Associate Professor

On sabbatical until Winter Term 2025

Professor Angelos Dassios
Professor

Professor Piotr Fryzlewicz
Professor

Dr Sara Geneletti
Associate Professor and MSc Health Data Science Programme Director

Dr David Itkin
Assistant Professor

Dr Kostas Kalogeropoulos
Associate Professor and MSc Statistics Programme Director

Professor Kostas Kardaras
Professor and Deputy Head of Department (Research)

Dr Ieva Kazlauskaitė
Assistant Professor

Professor Jouni Kuha
Professor and MSc Social Statistics Programme Director

Professor Clifford Lam
Professor and PhD Programme Director

Dr Pik Liew
Associate Professor (Education), BSc Actuarial Science Programme Director and Student Experience Strategic Lead

Dr Giulia Livieri
Assistant Professor

Dr Joshua Loftus
Assistant Professor

Dr Gelly Mitrodima
Assistant Professor (Education)

Professor Irini Moustaki
Professor and Deputy Head of Department (Teaching)

Dr Xinghao Qiao
Associate Professor

Dr Chengchun Shi
Associate Professor

Dr Andreas Søjmark
Assistant Professor and MSc Quantitative Methods for Risk Management Programme Director

Professor Fiona Steele
Professor

Professor Zoltan Szabo
Professor of Data Science and MSc Data Science programme Director

Professor Milan Vojnovic
Professor

Professor Tengyao Wang
Professor and MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics) Programme Director

Professor Qiwei Yao
Professor

Dr Christine Yuen
Assistant Professor (Education) and BSc Data Science Programme Director

Dr Xiaolin Zhu
Assistant Professor (Education) and BSc Mathematics, Statistics and Business Programme Director

Professor Anthony Atkinson
Emeritus Professor in Statistics

Dr Camilo Cárdenas Hurtado
LSE Fellow

Dr Phil Chan
Guest Lecturer

Dr Nicholas Cron
Guest Lecturer

Dr Tomasz Dubiel-Teleszynski
Visiting Fellow

Shakeel Gavioli-Akilagun
LSE Fellow

Haziq Jamil
Visiting Fellow

Dr Anastasia Kakou
Guest Lecturer and GTA Mentor

Dr Anica Kostic
LSE Fellow

Dr Martin Knott
Emeritus Associate Professor in Statistics

Dr Yirui Liu
Visiting Fellow

Dr Milt Mavrakakis
Guest Lecturer

Professor Colm O’Muircheartaigh
Visiting Professor, University of Chicago

Dr Francesca Panero
Visiting Fellow

Alexandros Pavlis
LSE Fellow

Karsten Shaw
Guest Lecturer

Philipp Sterzinger
LSE Fellow

Professor Howell Tong
Emeritus Professor in Statistics

Dr Konstantinos Vamvourellis
Visiting Fellow

Professor Henry Wynn
Emeritus Professor in Statistics

Dr Kaifang Zhou
LSE Fellow

Dr George Zouros
Guest Teacher

Dr Xuewen Yu
Research Fellow

Dr Jin Zhu
Research Officer

Steve Ellis
Undergraduate Programmes Manager
s.j.ellis@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)20 7955 7650 | COL 6.11

Ask me about: BSc Actuarial Science, BSc Data Science and BSc Mathematics, Statistics and Business.

Iulia Dumitras
Programme Manager
i.dumitras@lse.ac.uk | COL 6.11

Ask me about: Ongoing projects in the Department supporting our departmental strategy, such as alumni and external engagement

Muhammed Sabih Iqbal
PhD Programmes and Teaching Manager
m.s.iqbal@lse.ac.uk | +44 20 7955 7355 | COL 6.11

Ask me about: PhD/MPhil queries, class and seminar teaching and Graduate Teaching Assistants.

Yanli Ji
Programmes Administrator
y.ji4@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)20 7955 7453 | COL 6.11

Ask me about: General programme enquiries, coursework submissions, newsletters and exams administration.

Sarah McManus
MSc Programmes Manager
Stats-Msc@lse.ac.uk | COL 6.11

Ask me about: MSc Data Science, MSc Health Data Science (joint programme between Department of Health Policy and Department of Statistics), MSc Statistics (all streams) and MSc QMRM. Sarah will not be able to answer any admissions related queries. Please contact graduate admissions directly.