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
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
gov.ug@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)207 955 6498

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

PhD Enquiries
gov.phd@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)207 955 7929

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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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Education Team

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Faculty Affairs Team

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Guest Teachers

Sarah Goff (GV4D7, GV4H3 and GV499)

Geoffrey Myers (GV343)

Jill Stuart (GV344 and GV499)

Elisabeth Widmer (GV321 and GV4G7)

Graduate Teaching Assistants

Luqman Abu El Foul (GV248)

Faris Al-Sulayman (GV248)

Luis Bosshart (GV482)

Syeda Iqraa (Iqraa) Bukhari (GV245)

Cristina Conesa Pla (GV100)

Julia-Anne Costet (GV100)

Andrea Delestrade (GV262)

Scott Downham (GV101 and GV264)

Melanie Erspamer (GV100)

Isolde Hegemann (GV264)

Kristof Horvath (GV245 and GV248)

Gaetano Inglese (GV251 and GV264)

Roni Küppers (GV245)

Alexander McKenna (Dr) (GV311)

Lennard Metson (GV249)

Benedetta Morari (GV251)

Ellen Munroe (GV3L6)

Emma Obermair (GV262)

Asfa Shakeel (GV225)

Tarsha Vasu (GV249)

Stephanie Wanga (GV101)

Jan Wasserziehr (GV100)

Peter Wyckoff (GV263)

Alex Yeandle (GV249)

Khairulanwar Zaini (GV262)

Maham Zaman (GV263)

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Luqman Abu El Foul
Thesis: 'Palestine up in Arms: Contentious Politics and the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939'
l.abu-el-foul@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

Anusha Arumugam (MRes Student)
a.arumugam1@lse.ac.uk

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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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Christian Cervellera (MRes Student)
c.cervellera@lse.ac.uk

Morris Chan
Thesis: 'The Democratic Bubble: Subnational Opposition Enclaves within Dominant-Party Electoral Autocracies'
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
Thesis: 'Disenchanting the Divine'
j.z.chong@lse.ac.uk

Asli Ceren Cinar
Thesis: 'Power of Perception: Unveiling the Multidimensional Dynamics of Candidate Preference'
a.cinar@lse.ac.uk

Cristina Conesa Pla
c.conesa-pla@lse.ac.uk

Julia Costet
Thesis: 'Speaking Rape: Feminist Dilemmas on Language and Experience'
j.costet@lse.ac.uk

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Matt Davies (MRes Student)
m.o.davies@lse.ac.uk

Maryam Dharas (MRes Student)
m.k.dharas@lse.ac.uk

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Reuben Finighan
r.finighan@lse.ac.uk

Maximilian Fink
m.f.fink@lse.ac.uk

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Hilke Gudel
h.gudel@lse.ac.uk

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

Isolde Hegemann
i.h.hegemann@lse.ac.uk

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Angga Indraswara
Thesis: 'Beyond Numerical Inferiority: The Politics of Catholic and Protestant Minorities in Indonesia'
a.indraswara@lse.ac.uk

Gaetano Inglese
g.inglese@lse.ac.uk

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Sarah Jewett
s.jewett1@lse.ac.uk

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Yusuf Imaad Khan
y.i.khan@lse.ac.uk

Anton Könneke (MRes Student)
a.konneke@lse.ac.uk

Lara Charlotte (Charlotte) Kuberka (MRes Student)
l.kuberka@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: 'Exposure to polarised political discussions online and generalised trust'
t.t.lau@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

Luca Marsico (MRes Student)
l.marsico@lse.ac.uk

Lennard Metson
l.m.metson@lse.ac.uk

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Oscar Nowlan
Thesis: 'Blame Avoidance and Blame Attribution in Government'
o.w.nowlan@lse.ac.uk

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Emma Obermair
Thesis: 'Critically rethinking scientific production'
e.obermair@lse.ac.uk

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

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Diego Sazo
Thesis: 'The Violent Disconnection: Broken Societies and the Logic of Civil Disorder in Latin America'
d.n.sazo-munoz@lse.ac.uk

Asfa Shakeel
a.shakeel2@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

Theint Theint Thu
Thesis: 'The Politics of Public Service Provision in Fragile States'
t.thu@lse.ac.uk

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Tarsha Vasu
Thesis: 'Political representation of women and education in India'
t.vasu@lse.ac.uk

Lorenzo Vicari
l.vicari@lse.ac.uk

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Stephanie Wanga
Thesis: 'The State and its Competitors in East Africa: A History'
s.s.wanga@lse.ac.uk

Jan Henrik Wasserziehr
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

Jack Wilkinson (MRes Student)
j.j.wilkinson@lse.ac.uk

Peter Wyckoff
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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Khairulanwar Zaini
k.zaini@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

• 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

• Eiko Thielemann (Dr) - Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy

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

Visiting academic staff

• David Banisar (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until May 2025)

• Andrea Capussela (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until April 2026)

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

• Francesco Esposito (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until August 2025)

• Federico Fuchs (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until March 2026)

• Efe Gurcan (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until September 2025)

• Mark Hallerberg (Prof) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until August 2026)

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

• J. Andrew Harris (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until August 2025)

• Vincent Harting (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until August 2025)

• Helios Herrera (Prof) - Visiting Professor (until August 2026)

• Tuomas Kari (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until July 2025)

• Matthias Krönke (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until October 2026)
• Lanlan Li (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until January 2025)
• Li Li (Ms) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until June 2025)
• Geoffrey Myers (Prof) - Visiting Professor in Practice (until August 2026)

• Alberto Parmigiani (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until May 2025)

• 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)

• Lukas Slothuus (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until September 2025)

• Christine Stedtnitz (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until March 2027)

• Jill Stuart (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until September 2026)

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

• Denise van der Kamp (Prof) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until August 2027)

• Elisabeth Widmer (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until April 2025)